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and terminates in a point upon the ridge of the back, at 

 the junction with the band from the opposite side : a smalt 

 dark-coloured streak passes also through the eyes, or com- 

 mences at them, and reaches down to near the nostrils, and 

 the horns are placed on a bright fulvous scalp ; these are 

 robust, and handsomely lyrated in old males, with about 

 twenty narrow complete annuli, and the tips turned in- 

 wards or forwards. In the females they are slender, and 

 the annuli less prominent. It is to be remarked of this 

 species, that while the males are young, and their horns 

 shew only twelve or fourteen annuli, the points generally 

 turn forwards ; but in proportion as they increase in 

 length, the apex turns more inward, and the annuli assume 

 the form of large wrinkles. This observation proves the 

 anterior uncination of horns to be either insignificant or a 

 transient distinction in many species, and in all probability 

 is equally applicable to A. Dama. 



The Springer is known among the Dutch Colonists of 

 the Cape by the names of Spring Bock and Pronk (showy) 

 Bock*. It resides on the plains of South Africa, to an 

 unknown distance in the interior, in flocks, assembling in 

 vast herds, and migrating from north to south, and back 

 with the monsoons. These migrations, which are said to 

 take place in their most numerous form, only at the inter- 

 vals of several years, appear to come from the north-east, 

 and in masses of many thousands, devouring, like locusts, 

 every green herb. The Lion has been seen to migrate, and 

 walk in the midst of the compressed phalanx, with only as 

 much room between him and his victims as the fears of 

 those immediately around could procure space by pressing 

 outwards. The foremost of these vast columns are fat, and 



* The Caffer name Tesbe has a singular resemblance to the 

 Hebrew Tzebi, which is commonly understood to designate the 

 Dorcas. 



