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in extreme leiigtli. Horns upwards of three feet long; straight 

 or very slightly bent ; horizontal, divergent, and tapering to the 

 points ; the lower part annulated with from twenty-five to thirty 

 rings. Eyes high in the head. Black space between the base of 

 the horns descending in a streak down the forehead; another 

 passing through the eyes to the corner of the mouth, connected by 

 a third which runs round the head over the nose ; a fourth passes 

 from the base of the ears under the throat completing the appear- 

 ance of a headstall ; the rest of the head white. Ears round ; 

 white with black edging. General colour of the coat vinous buff. 

 The breast, belly, and extremities white. A tuft of bristly black 

 hair on the larynx, and the latter edged with black. A mane re- 

 versed : and a black list stripe from the nape of the neck along the 

 back, widening angularly over the crop, and terminating in a bushy 

 black tail, three feet long, which sweeps the ground. A broad black 

 bar across the elboAv, passing along the flank, and ending in a wide 

 angular space on the thigh above the hocks ; and a black spot upon 

 each leg between the knee and fetlock. Nose ovine. No subor- 

 bital sinus. 



Female similar, with longer horns. An udder with two mammae. 



Gregarious. Principally found in the Karroo, or in the open 

 plains of Namaqua land. 



28. Gazella Euchore. The Spring Buck. Spring-bok of the 

 Cape Colonists. Tsepe of the Matabill and Bechuana. 



Adult male about two feet eight inches high at the shoulder, and 

 two feet ten at the croup. Extreme length about four feet ten 

 inches. Head and face white, resembling a lamb's. Horns black, 

 lyrate, robust, with about twenty comj)lete rings; the tips turned 

 inwards, and generally either forward or backwards. General colour 

 of the hair yellow dun, with a white croup consisting of long hairs 

 which can be erected or depressed at pleasui'e. Belly, throat, and 

 inside of limbs, white, separated from the dun by a broad rich 

 chesnut band along the flanks ; another along the edges of the folds 

 of the croup ; and a streak from the back of the horns through the 

 eyes to the nose. A truly o\dne nose. Small indistinct lachrymary 

 sinus. Ears long, attenuated, and dirty Avhite. Eyes very large, 



