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composed of rather soft criinpeil hairs, unlike those of equinns 

 which are straight and brush-like, reaches to the middle of the 

 back. The back itself is level and short, with immense breadth 

 across the loins, and quarters wide, full, and round like those of a 

 cobby horse. 



The tail, which is crested along its dorsal surface, terminates 

 at about the level of the hocks in a thin tuft. 



The testes in fully adult males are very large, the scrotum 

 being pear-shaped as in bovines. 



Colour above intense glossy black, under parts and inside of 

 thighs Avhite. Forehead and foreface wholly black, having in 

 some specimens a faint trace of the cheek-stripes indicated by a 

 few huffish hairs. Lacrymal tufts with extension upwards in the 

 form of a frontally converging whorl of liair to the level of the 

 eyebrows, buff. Lower part of cheeks, chin, and lips creamy bufJ". 

 Hair of inside of ears white with bufi" edges; back of ears tan. 

 Mane black, with a few reddish-tan hairs ou crown. Tail black, 

 with reddisii-tan hairs along its doi'sal crest; tuft wholly black. 

 A deep tan patch covering side and back of hocks, and a stripe of 

 the same colour extending down back of forelegs to fetlocks. 

 Legs otherwise black. Irides in old males light tawny or light 

 brown, giving a goat-like expression to the eye. 



Young males resemble females, but the prevailing body-colour 

 is duller, being tawny and black in almost equal proportions. 

 As the animal advances in age, the black predominates, spreading 

 forwards from the neck, chest, and shoulders, along the flanks and 

 on the quarters, the last part to change colour being the lumbar 

 region of the back. Face black as in old males. 



Females. Bright golden chestnut, lightly sufi'used with black on 

 the flanks, due to a percentage of the hairs being tipped with black, 

 and deepening to a dusky brown with a sprinkling of long tawny 

 hairs along the under side of the neck and on the chest. Lender 

 parts, including inside of hams, white. Legs golden chestnut, with 

 a bro-ul dusky streak down centime of knees. Back of pasterns and 

 coronary baiid black. A blackish-brown blaze down centre of 

 face flanked by narrow indistinct cheek-stripes. Lacrymal tufts, 

 inside ears, and sides of jaws bufl:y white, paling to Avhite on lips 

 and chin. Back of ears, crown, and forehead golden chestnut. 

 Mane blackish brown, with an admixture of golden-chestnut hairs 

 which replace the blnck on the crown and in lear of the withers. 

 Tail-tuft deep brown. Irides brown. 



Hahitai. The Angolan Sable Antelope is found in the strip of 

 country enclosed by the upper waters of the Quanza River and its 

 eastern tributary the Luando,and it is also said on good authority 

 to occur between that river and its western tributary the Ktitatu, 

 all three i-ising in the great central plateau that divides the Congo 

 basin from that of the Zambesi. East of the Luando thecountiy 

 is dry, barren, and sandy, being known locally as the '' hunger 

 country," and all reports, both native and European, tend to 

 prove that the range of the Sable does not spread beyond the 



