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turning outwards, and forming two crescents with the points in- 

 wards ; marked with from twelve to fifteen incomplete annuli. 

 Neck short. Body rather bulky. Legs slender. Withers very 

 elevated. Head long, narrow, and shapeless. Facial line strait. 

 A dark streak from between the horns to the nose. Ears fawn 

 colour, nine inches long. General colour deep blackish purple- 

 brown above, fulvous beneath. A dab of slate colour extends 

 from the middle of the shoulder to the knee ; and another from 

 the middle of the flank to the hock, outside. A band of the same 

 colour passes across the inside of both fore and hind legs, upon a 

 fulvous ground. Lower part of the legs, deep fulvous. Tail twenty- 

 two inches long, rufous, and covered with posteriorly directed black 

 hair. Rump fawn colom*. Eyes fiery red. A half muzzle, and 

 very indistinct lachrymary perforation. 



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

 Mammse two. 



Gregarious. Inhabits the country of the Bechuana in consider- 

 able herds. 



Genua. Antilope. 



24. Aigoceriis Niger. The Sable Antelope. Uiidescrihed hy 

 Naturalists. Unknown to tJie Ma'ahili. 



Adult male four feet six inches high at the shoulder ; nearly nine 

 feet in extreme length. Horns thirty-seven inches over the curve ; 

 placed immediately above the eyes ; flat, slender, sub-erect, and then 

 strongly bent back scimitarwise ; at first gradually diverging, and 

 then running parallel to each other; three-fourths annulated with 

 about thirty strongly pronounced incomplete rings, more rigid on 

 the edges, but chiefly lost on the outside of the horn ; the remaining 

 one-fourth, smooth, round, slender, and pointed. Head somewhat 

 attenuated towards the muzzle, and compressed laterally. Carcase 

 robust. Withers elevated. Neck broad and flat. Hoofs black, 

 obtuse, and rather short. Hair close and smooth. General colour 

 of the coat, intense glossy black, with an occasional cast of deep 

 chesnut. A white streak commencing above each eye continued by 



