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in the tawny or bright rufous it is white, and the teats are 

 rose-coloured ; the females are without horns, and in other 

 respects resemble the males. 



Of this species we have compared seven specimens, 

 among which three were females, and one a young male, 

 whose horns were still more erect than in the adult, the 

 annuli very small, and the edge of the buttocks white. The 

 Orebi resides in pairs or small families in the interior of 

 Caffraria, and from the difference of colour in the hide 

 and in the fur, we would infer that it frequents both the 

 woody cover and the open plain. 



The Oreotragine Group. 



In this section which embraces at present but one species, 

 the characters present a sudden passage from the surround- 

 ing racemi to the Caprine forms and manners; the horns 

 are short, slender, vertical, and parallel, with very few 

 annuli ; the suborbital sinus is conspicuous, and marked 

 with a dark spot, but the head is short, the superior edge 

 of the orbits projecting ; the body and legs, when compared 

 with the size, exceedingly robust ; the hair is of a singular 

 structure, being hard, flat, spiral, flexible, and erect upon 

 the skin, with the tips turned back, or reclining ; the females 

 are hornless, but in other respects resemble the male ; they 

 have inguinal pores, and two mammae ? ; their habitat is 

 confined to barren precipitous rocks. 



The Klipspringer. (A. Oreotragus.) The form of this 

 animal is very like that of the Ibex Kid, of about seven 

 months old. The male is about three feet seven inches 

 long, and twenty-one or twenty-two inches high at the 

 shoulder and croup ; the head is short, broad, and round, 

 tapering rather suddenly to a small mouth, terminated by 

 a diminutive muzzle, of a black colour, the dark part as- 

 cending in a point upon the ridge of the nose or chaffron ; 

 the incisors are equal, touching at the edges, and the mid- 



