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facial line straighter; the horns are considerably more 

 robust, laterally compressed, longer, the flexures more com- 

 plete, with from twelve to twenty annuli extending nearly 

 to the summit, and the points bent forwards slender and 

 sharp ; the orbits are larger ; the eye still fuller, and of 

 an hazel colour ; the white space round the eye is broader, 

 and the same colour extends to the under jaw ; the co- 

 lours on the forehead and chaffron are fulvous, and the 

 streak on the inner angle of the eyes fulvous-brown, with 

 no really black intermixture ; and though the disposition 

 of the colours of the hair in other respects be nearly similar* 

 the white of the buttocks is usually divided from the pale 

 fulvous of the thigh by a faint darker streak, even when no 

 dark band is seen on the flanks, which seems to be the sign 

 of old age. 



It appears that the Kevel is not found on the north side 

 of the Atlas, unless it be on the west coast of Morocco : 

 it forms large herds along the plains of Central Africa be- 

 yond the river Congo, and probably as far south as Caffra- 

 ria. In Mr. Burchell's private collection we saw a skull 

 belonging to the female of either this or the young male of 

 Corinna ; for, notwithstanding the resemblance, the female 

 of Euchon is readily distinguished. We have compared 

 two living and five stuffed specimens of the Kevel, and 

 particularly one old with the oldest among the Dorcas, and 

 our inferences are in favour of the opinion that they are 

 distinct species. The horns of the female are almost 

 straight, excepting at the tips, which turn inwards; they are 

 slightly compressed, and marked in front with seven or eight 

 half annuli ; the number of mammae the same as Dorcas. 



The Corinna. (A. Corinna.) The third questionable species 

 is the Corinna, confounded on account of its close affinity 

 with the two former, which is indeed so near, that the young 

 females of the latter, and especially of Kevella, are mostly 

 placed in the collections of Mammalia for specimens of the 



