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Female slighter, hornless, and with fewer and fainter white 

 markings. Has an udder with four mammse. 



Gregarious. Still found within the Colony. Inhabits thickets 

 and wooded hills. 



22. Acronotas Caamu. The Caama. Hartebeest of the Cape 

 Colonists. Intoosel of the 31atahili. Caama of the Bechuana. 



Adult male about five feet high at the withers, and nine in ex- 

 treme length. Shoulders very elevated, cruppers very drooping and 

 head very large and long. The whole animal made up of triangles. 

 Horns placed upon a high ridge above the frontals, very close at the 

 base ; robust, divergent, and again approximating so as to form a 

 lozenge, with double flexures strongly pronounced, turned forwards, 

 and the points backwards, with several prominent knots on the an- 

 terior sm'face. A black spot at their base, above the forehead, con- 

 tinued behind, and terminating in front of the ears. A black streak 

 down the nose, commencing beloAv the eyes, and terminating at the 

 nostrils. Chin black. A narrow black stripe down the back of the 

 neck. A black streak on the fore leg commencing about mid 

 shoulder; another down the hind leg commencing about the middle 

 of the buttock. A triangular spot of white immediately above on 

 each buttock, and a yellow spot above each eye. Tail reaching to 

 the hocks, covered with posteriorly du'ected black hair. General 

 colour bright sienna, with a deep red cast. A half muzzle. No 

 suborbital sinus, but a mucous discharge. Eyes fiery red. 



Female similar, but smaller, with more slender horns. Mammae 

 two. 



Inhabits the plains of the interior beyond the Orange Hiver, in 

 immense herds. 



23. Acronotus Lunatn. The Sassaybe. Bastard Hartebeest of 

 the Cape Colonists. SassSLjhe of the Matabili and Bechuana. 



Adult male four feet six inches high at the shoulder, four feet at 

 the croup. Eight feet two inches in extreme length. Horns ro- 

 bust, about twelve inches long, placed on the summit of the frontals, 



