4 Mr. Woods on a neiv Species of Antelope. 



row ; then expanded in a trifling degree ; again contracted, and, when 

 level with the eyes, widened suddenly and proceeded, as a broad mask, to 

 the nose, extending to the cheeks considerably, and on each side of the 

 centre of the face : throughout its whole extent it was margined with 

 deep brown ; a brown shade also mingled with the grey across the mid- 

 dle of the mask. 



The nose was broad and dark grey, nearly black ; the muzzle hairy ; 

 the lips brown, furnished with a few grey hairs. 



The neck and back were dull dark fawn-colour, a httle freckled with 

 yellowish brown ; the throat, chest, and abdomen, and the insides of the 

 arms and thighs, of a very light Isabella, as were also the knees and el- 

 bows. An indistinct grey stripe, caused by the presence of a few white 

 hairs thinly scattered amongst the fawn-coloured fur, occupied the situa- 

 tion of a dorsal line, on the lumbar regions. 



The sides were of a deep rich and glossy brown, which commenced 

 at the breast, and passed, in an obhque line at its upper boundary, to the 

 crupper, where it almost deepened to black : its lower margin extended 

 half way down the upper arras, along the side of the belly, and down 

 the outside of the thighs, nearly to the hocks. 



On the buttocks was situated a white oval disk, (similar to that of 

 many of the American Deer,) which included the upper part of the tail : 

 below the disk the tail terminated in long, coarse, scanty, black hairs, 

 being altogether about 8 inches in length. 



The legs were of a beautiful pale reddish fawn-colour. The fur on 

 the neck and shoulders was rough and long, but smooth and close on all 

 other parts. 



The nearest similitude to the figure and general appearance of this 

 species is possessed by the Vlacte Steenbok, Jnt. rufescens, Burchell, 

 also a very rare animal having the same habitat, of which a specimen 

 was presented to the British Museum, and figured and described in Grif- 

 fith's Translation of the Regne Animal ;* but the two Antelopes differ 

 in the following particulars. Although the direction of the horns,in profile, 

 is similar in both, those of the Ant. rufescens are parallel, and without 

 the annulus ; the mask on the face, and the hump on the shoulders, are 



* Griffith, Vol. IV, p. 249, and Synopsis, Sp. 839. 



