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efforts of his dogs. They were formerly so abundant in 

 the colony of the Cape, that their elastic hair was used to 

 stuff saddles ; but now they are become rare, excepting in 

 the interior. The females resemble the males in every re- 

 spect excepting in the absence of horns ; they live in pairs 

 among the most precipitous rocks of South Africa, where 

 they are, nevertheless, eagerly sought on account of their 

 venison which is considered among the best in the country. 

 We have compared two males and three females, several 

 skulls and fragments of their spoils. 



The Traguline Group. 



Messrs Forster and Lichtenstein have considered the 

 present racemus as consisting of varieties of colour only, 

 the animals being all of the same species: it must be 

 confessed that their characters and colours, passing from 

 one into the other, afford grounds for the suspicion and 

 would lead to a conclusion that difference of age and 

 of residence are sufficient to account for the trivial dis- 

 tinctions observed between them. The Cape colonists, 

 however, are of a different opinion, and Mr. Burchell 

 appears to coincide with them principally, because — with 

 the differences of colour observed among them — they vary 

 in manners, habitat and stature. As this is a question 

 which cannot be decided in the present state of our infor- 

 mation, nor indeed of very great importance, we shall de- 

 scribe them as separate species by the names which they 

 have received from the above learned zoologists and tra- 

 vellers. 



The group consists of animals small in stature, high 

 upon the legs in proportion to their length, slender in form, 

 and like the preceding, destitute or nearly destitute of tail ; 

 the ears are longer than the horns, rather broad and not 

 much pointed ; the horns are short, distant, round, vertical, 

 parallel, inclining slightly forwards or backwards, with 



