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the flanks, downward over the hips, and backward towards 

 the tail ; the belly, internal face of the fore-legs, anterior 

 and internal side of the thighs and fetlocks, white ; a dark 

 list ran in front of the fore-legs, terminating near the hoofs ; 

 a black lengthened spot surrounded the hind-legs above the 

 spurious hoofs ; the tail was short, entirely covered with 

 long black hair; the suborbital slit was long and open; 

 small black brushes covered the knees, and the hoofs were 

 small, pointed, and black. The female was smaller, horn- 

 less, but similar in the gland on the back, the direction of 

 the hair, and distribution of the colours ; both were ex- 

 cessively shy, and difficult to approach. They were brought 

 from the west coast of Africa. 



We have here three successive instances of dark spots 

 near the succentorial hoofs, a resemblance further main- 

 tained in the suborbital openings, the long ears, rufous 

 colours, and small muzzle ; but the identity with Kob would 

 not have been obvious, if, after the death of the male, we 

 had not obtained, from the politeness of Mr. Pettigrew, 

 permission to make drawings of the skull then in his pos- 

 session, and thus to establish the only comparison that could 

 be deemed satisfactory, with the figure of the skull in the 

 works of BufFon. Although the living objects just described 

 were still young, the similarity is striking, and differs only 

 where they differ in age. The horns of our specimen, 

 when seen in front, resemble the points of a field fork, 

 opening from the base, and bearing the summit nearly 

 parallel ; the skull is narrow across the orbits ; the super- 

 orbitary perforations on the frontals are triple on one side, 

 and only double on the other, each in one common cavity ; 

 the nasal bones are divided from the lachrymary by a single 

 lengthened void ; the lachrymary are not hollowed out to 

 the depth that appears in others, and the nasals are re- 

 markably long. We conjecture, when the lachrymary bones 

 are not greatly depressed, and a suborbital sack is, never- 



