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this colour, spread also over the throat, breast, belly, an- 

 terior part of the thighs, and inside of the limbs, legs, and 

 fetlocks : between the dun and white on the flanks there 

 was a darker line not very distinct ; a dusky streak passed 

 down the front of the fore-legs, terminating in a dark spot 

 on the pastern joint, and small brushes of the same colour 

 protected the knees ; on the hind-legs the dusky space 

 reached only a short distance above the pastern ; the hoofs 

 were small, black, and pointed. 



Its aspect was peculiarly soft and engaging, but it was 

 uncommonly shy. We understood it to have been brought 

 from the west coast of Africa. 



In the Museum of Mr. Riddel there was a stuffed female 

 in a recumbent attitude, which belongs to this or the fol- 

 lowing species. The head was hornless, ten inches long, 

 round about the forehead, and tapering to a prolonged small 

 muzzle ; the suborbital sinus open and dark ; the eye-lashes 

 long and black ; the ears lengthened oval, lined with much 

 white hair. Its total length three feet eight inches, as- 

 sumed height at the shoulder twenty-two inches, and at the 

 croup twenty-five inches ; the nose, forehead, back of the 

 ears, neck, back, croup, and anterior part of the legs, ful- 

 vous ; sides of the head, neck, shoulders, flanks, and thighs, 

 sandy-ochre colour ; a spot above the eyes, mouth, throat, 

 breast, belly, and inside of the limbs, white ; no streak, but 

 a dark spot on each pastern ; tufts on knees stiff, curling, 

 dark-brown ; two mammae : it was evidently not quite adult, 

 and came from Africa, we believe from Sierra Leone. 



The Kob? (A. Adenota*.) The animal designated by 

 the name of Kob, is known only from the skull and horns 

 in the Museum of Paris. Mr. Adanson first noticed it, and 



* Uncertain whether this is the Kob, we wish to distinguish the 

 present specimen by the gland on the back, adrjp, glandula, vwros % 

 dorsum. 



