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before the eyes, the lips, under jaw, breast, belly, all the legs, 

 the thighs, and croup, are white ; the chin is furnished with 

 bristly hairs, and of the same colour, as also the tail, the 

 end of which is mutilated; the chaffron, cheeks, neck, 

 shoulder, flanks, hips, and part of the buttock, are fulvous- 

 ochre colour ; the withers and back a whitish-gray, glazed 

 upon the under teint, forming an ephipiform spot similar 

 to the preceding ; the ears are white within, and very pale 

 fawn on the outside. There are small naked callosities 

 below the knees, and a dark-brown spot embraces the in- 

 sertion of the spurious hoofs ; but the broad, fiat, muscle- 

 shaped hoofs, expanding nearly an inch laterally, and ter- 

 minating forwards in two long and rounded points, distin- 

 guishes this species from every other. In this species 

 four mammae are developed, and it is probable that the 

 same character extends to Pygargus. The body is heavy 

 compared with others of this group, and the form of the 

 hoofs indicate a peculiar mode of life, perhaps on the sandy 

 deserts, as we have seen something similar in the Addax, 



We understood the specimen to have been brought from 

 Guinea, or at least from Western Africa. The male is as 

 yet unknown, but it may be conjectured, that, excepting in 

 stature, more robust horns, and a more brilliant coat, little 

 difference will be found between them. 



The Red-necked Antelope. (A. Ruficollis.) There is so 

 much similarity in the distribution of the colours, and 

 even in the horns, between this species and A. Dama, that 

 their possible identity requires an osculating location among 

 the Antelopes. The species under consideration is about 

 three feet high at the shoulder, of a light and elegant 

 structure; the head rather broad across the orbits, tapers 

 to a small mouth with ovine nostrils; the horns are near 

 twelve inches long, with thirteen or sixteen small annuli, 

 the superior third smooth ; they are lyrated, with the tips 

 turned inward and forward ; beneath the eyes there is 



