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base three-quarters of an inch, and at their tips one inch 

 two-tenths. Head in length seven inches and a half, and 

 its greatest circumference across the cheeks and behind the 

 spurious horns thirteen inches; ears mostly erect, ovate* 

 the greatest breadth about two inches and a quarter, and 

 length four inches and three-quarters ; nose naked and 

 black ; the margin of the lips black ; eyes large, with 

 strong bristly black eyelashes ; limbs delicately made, the 

 shanks of the fore-legs being two inches and a half in cir- 

 cumference, and those of the hind three inches ; the proper 

 and spurious hoofs are black ; the greatest circumference 

 of the body is twenty-nine inches. The general colour of 

 the animal is an uniform and bright bay on all the upper 

 parts, and below, i. e., the chin, the under line of the neck, 

 the abdomen, the inner side of the thighs, and under the 

 tail, inclining to white, more or less mixed with sandy 

 hairs ; the teeth in the lower jaw are eight in front, the 

 two middle ones being much larger than the six lateral 

 teeth, and spread out ; their inner margins rounded and 

 not touching, and their internal surface hollowed out like a 

 spoon ; in the hinder part of the jaw, on each side, are six 

 grinders, with pointed surfaces, and a like number in the 

 upper jaw, similarly constructed. 



" The female differs only in having no horns, and being 

 of lighter colour. This distinction of colours is found to be 

 a permanent character ; it at least remained so for the four 

 years I kept a pair in my possession, and within which period 

 they bred ; two young ones were produced at the same 

 birth, one male, and the other female ; and the distinction 

 of colour, as above, was conspicuous at that early stage, 

 and continued. The male in the rutting season becomes 

 exceedingly wild and mischievous, and, although partly do- 

 mesticated, continues dangerously so, running at every 

 animal within its reach, whether deer, goat, or man ; even 

 the feeder could only approach him on the verge of the 



