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a pencil of long Imirs covering the place of the snborbital poncli (of 

 wliich cavity no trace is to be found);, and then running down tlie 

 side of the nose to the muzzle^ which is entirely white; the same 

 colour pervading the throat and one-half of the cheek. Ears ten 

 inches long ; narrow, tapering, and pointed ; white within, lively 

 chesnut without, with black pencilled tips. A broad half- crescent 

 of deeper chesnut at the base of each ear, behind. A small entire 

 sharp black muzzle. A copious standing black mane, somewhat 

 inclined forwards, five and a half inches high, extending from be- 

 tween the ears to the middle of the back. Hair of the throat and 

 neck longer than that of the body. Belly, buttocks, and inside of 

 thighs, pure white. A longitudinal dusky white stripe behind each 

 arm. Fore legs jet black inside and out, with a tinge of chesnut 

 on and below the knees. Hind legs black, with a lively chesnut 

 patch at and below the hock. Tail black ; long hair skirting 

 the posterior edge, terminating in a tuft which extends below the 

 hocks. 



Female smaller than the male, with smaller but similarly shaped 

 horns. Colour deep chesnut brown, verging upon black. 



Very rare. Gregarious in small families. Inhabits the great 

 mountain range which threads the eastern portion of the Matabili 

 country. 



25. Aigocenis Equina * The Roan Antelope. Bastard Gems])ok 

 of the Cape Colonists. Etak of the Matahili, 



Adult male about five feet high at the shoulder, and nine in 

 extreme length. Horns very robust, about two feet in height, 

 strongly bent back scimitarwise, and nearly parallel ; with from 

 twenty-five to thirty prominent rings, more remote from the orbits, 

 and extending to witliin about four inches of the points. Face and 

 head hoary black, with a large white streak before and behind each 

 eye, formed of a pencil of long hairs. A white spot between tlie 



* If the Blue Antelope {Algoccrns Leiicoplimi) ever did exist, it is now ex- 

 tinct. I am disposed to reg'ard it as a variety of the Roan Antelope, and 

 Duniell's Takludtzc {A, Barhaia) is probably so too. 



