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bent forwards ; no suborbital openings nor muzzle are men- 

 tioned in the description ; the fur is pale rufous all over, 

 one and a half inch long, rather rough, and not close to the 

 skin. The specimen was brought from the vicinity of 

 Goree on the west coast of Africa. 



The Red Rheebock. (A. Fulvo Rufula.) We consider 

 this species as the adult of the former, notwithstanding the 

 wide distance of the places from whence the two specimens 

 have been produced. Allaman long ago noticed a species 

 under the name of Rhoode Rheebock, or Red Roebuck, not 

 Rietbock ; and M. Afzelius justly viewed it as a species. 

 Mr. Burchell in his arduous travels obtained a male, and 

 M. Lalande a female of the species. If the Nagor be 

 deemed to be the young, there is at least no doubt of the 

 Lalandian being the female. We have drawn and com- 

 pared both, and Mr. Daniell has likewise published a good 

 figure of the male in his Sketches of African Scenery, &c. 



The male in the British Museum is four feet eight inches 

 long, two feet eight inches at the shoulder, and about the 

 same at the croup. The head measures from the nose to 

 the horns seven inches, and from the nose to the ears nine; 

 the horns, placed behind the orbits, are six inches long, 

 close together at base, a little compressed, black, not much 

 divergent, suberect, bent forwards with five obscure semi- 

 annuli, separated by striae in the front, reaching near half 

 way of their length, the points smooth and rather approxi- 

 mating; the ears are long, open, oval, edged at top with 

 black, well lined with white hair both short and long. 

 There is a small fold indicating a lachrymary sack, and 

 the nostrils encompass a middle-sized black muzzle ; the 

 face, throat, back of the ears, neck, and anterior part of 

 the legs are tawny or clear fulvous, with a little whitish 

 on the brows ; the chin is rather deep and strong, and 

 with the lips, internal part of the arms, belly, anterior and 

 internal face of the thighs, white ; the shoulders, back, an- 



