178 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



horns are very stout, but something shorter, the curve 

 backwards commencing nearer the base is more sudden ; 

 they exceed two feet in length, marked with wrinkles 

 at base, and from seventeen to twenty-seven complete rings, 

 having the superior third smooth : they stand closer to- 

 gether than in the preceding, and more remote from the 

 orbits ; the ears are more than nine inches long, and the 

 hair of the body is long, undulating, coarse, and rather 

 scanty, forming a gray more or less of a mixed reddish and 

 white. Under the throat the hair is still longer, white, 

 and hanging down ; a streak formed by a pencil of long 

 white hairs, passes across the anterior angle of the eyes, 

 and the white spot extends in some round the orbits ; a 

 spot on the forehead, and the region round the mouth and 

 muzzle, are also white ; the rest of the face, cheeks, and 

 outside of the ears are bright chestnut or red ; on the neck 

 there is a low ridge of white hairs turned in a reversed 

 direction towards the head. The belly is white, and the 

 tail reaching to the houghs, about twenty inches long, and 

 the tuft at the end dark coloured ; the legs are of a dirty 

 ochre, and the hoofs black, and both broad and long. 



This description, taken from the specimen presented by 

 Mr. Burchell to the British Museum, differs slightly from 

 that of Messrs. Cuvier and Geoffroy, who first gave an ac- 

 count of the species, from that of Paris. Their specimen 

 however, is inferior in preservation, and even in stature to 

 the pair which Mr. Burchell brought to England, but older 

 by the superior number of annuli upon the horns which 

 amount to twenty-seven, whereas the British have not 

 more than nineteen and twenty-one true rings upon theirs : 

 these also have the hair longer and looser, forming con- 

 fused clouds and fleabites of brown vinous-red and white. 

 The larger measures from nose to tail, seven feet three 

 inches ; at the shoulder about four feet four inches in 

 height ; the tail and tuft, one foot six inches ; the horns 



