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horns, and a Avhite muzzle. Ears of asinine dimensions, fourteen 

 inches long, pointed, and the tijis hent back A'ery eccentrically. Tail 

 descending to the hocks, slender, black, and tufted. Hair coarse, 

 loose, and undulating ; mixed red and white, forming a roan. 

 Beneath the throat longer and whiter. Neck furnished Avith a 

 stiff upright mane, terminating at the withers. A half- muzzle. No 

 suborbital sinus. 



Female similar, but hornless. Mammse two. Gregarious in 

 small families or herds, but rare. Inhabits the elevated ridges near 

 the source of the Yaal and Limpopo Kivers. 



26. Aigocerus Ellipsiprymnus. The Water-15uck. Phitomok of 

 the Matahili. 



Adult male four feet six inches high ; nearly nine feet in extreme 

 length. Horns upwards of thirty inches ; upright, curved forwards 

 and sometimes inwards, but always diverging ; of a whitish green 

 colour ; the first third slightly compressed ; the other two-thirds 

 nearly cylindrical ; very strongly and closely annulated along the 

 front and outside to within six inches of the points. Face deep 

 brown. Forehead, base of horns, and behind the eyes, rufous. A 

 white patch on the throat. Under lip and muzzle white. A white 

 streak before each eye, and a Avhite elliptical band encircling the 

 tail. Ears cervine, round and large ; white inside, brown without. 

 General colour of the hair greyish sepia brown ; in texture coarse, 

 and resembling split whalebone ; shorter on the body, but on the 

 neck long white and reversed, having the semblance of a mane. 

 Hide black. Legs dark brown. Tail brown and tufted, not quite 

 reaching to the hocks. A muzzle. No suborbital indent. 



Female precisely similar, but hornless. Mamma3 two. 



Gregarious. Found only on or near the banks of rivers near 

 the Tropic, the Limpopo and Mariqua especially. 



27. Oryx Capensis. The South African Oryx. Gemsbok of 

 the Cnj)e Colonists. Kookaam of the 3Iatcibili and Bechuana. 



Adult male three feet ten inches high at the shoidder ; ten feet 



