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Nunni. Their manners are somewhat akin to those of the 

 Gnoo, living in families of seven or eight; and further 

 north, even in small floeks. There is a variety which we 

 have seen, brought from the Boochwaana country, in which 

 the white colour on the buttocks is not observable, but the 

 white legs remain equally pure as in the others, and the 

 purple and glazed colours of the body are still more bril- 

 liant. 



The Broad-hoofed Antelope. (A. Mytilopes.) Dr. de 

 Blainville is the only author who has published a notice of 

 this species under the name of Antilope Neztache* {A. Naso 

 Maculatd), from a specimen in Mr. Bullock's late collec- 

 tion, and now in the British Museum ; but his descrip- 

 tion is very imperfect, no doubt, from the impossibility 

 of obtaining a close inspection of his subject. It is a 

 female evidently allied to the former by several characters, 

 but considerably smaller, being only four feet two inches 

 in length, by two feet eight inches at the shoulder ; the 

 croup two inches higher. The head is nine inches long, 

 concave between the chaffron and forehead ; the horns, one 

 foot in length, have the same direction as in the former, 

 but the flexures are less strongly marked ; they are round, 

 black, annulated, with thirteen or fourteen rather indistinct 

 rings extending little more than half way up, the rest 

 Smooth, standing on a square spot of a vivid rufous colour ; 

 the ears are six inches long ; the suborbital pore not percep- 

 tible, and the nostrils with a small dark space or muzzle be- 

 tween them ; the rest of the forehead, region about the eyes, 

 passing into a broad bar under the ear, and into another bar 



* This specific denomination appears very objectionable, be- 

 cause the animal is possessed of distinctive characters much more 

 essential, clearly marked, and applicable to it alone ; whereas the 

 spot on the nose is faint, of the same colour as the cheeks and 

 sides, and therefore no spot. 



