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CLASS MAMMALIA. 



no, or only slight, indications of wrinkles at the base. The 

 skin round the orbits black, having a suborbital sinus, and 

 small black muzzle ; the females without horns, with two 

 mammas and inguinal pores. 



The Steenbock. (A. Rupestris.) Professor Lichtenstein 

 appears not to have known the adult of either of theSteen- 

 bocks, and particularly the present, which is larger and more 

 robust in structure than his Tragulus. It is nearly equal 

 in size to A. Scoparia, three feet six inches long, about 

 twenty inches high at the shoulder, and v twenty-one or 

 twenty-two inches at croup ; the head is oval, with the 

 snout pointed, and terminated by a small round and black 

 muzzle, ascending in a point on the ridge of the nose ; the 

 horns are vertical, or at a right angle with the plane of the 

 face, distant, straight, parallel, round, pointed, and black, 

 with only one or two rudiments of wrinkles at base, not 

 quite four inches long, and seated nearly between the orbits ; 

 the ears longer than the horns, are open, pointed, with 

 three dark naked striae between, scanty white hairs within, 

 and pale fawn-coloured outside, edged with black ; the eyes 

 are placed high in the head, with black eye-lashes, and a 

 small black suborbital sinus placed beneath their inner can- 

 thus ; the forehead and nose are pale chocolate rufous ; 

 sides of the face, mouth, and chin, fawn-coloured ; the 

 back of the neck, shoulders, back, and croup, rufous cho- 

 colate, passing into rufous on the sides of the neck, flanks, 

 and thighs ; the breast, belly, anterior part of the thighs, 

 buttocks, and inside of the limbs, are white ; the legs 

 entirely dun, or dark buff; the groin is naked and black ; 

 there is a small collosity on the knees, and the tail does not 

 protrude beyond the hair ; the hoofs are rather high, short, 

 and black, and the pasterns short. In this species the in- 

 cisors are narrow, long, oblique, overlapping, and the two 

 middlemost close. 

 The Steenbock is still found within the limits of the 



