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known to the British residents at Sierra Leone by the name 

 of Bush Goat ; it is of considerable stature, and if really 

 belonging to the present group, the largest of the whole. 

 The length from nose to tail is five feet ; height at the 

 shoulders less than three, and at the croup three feet two 

 inches ; the head is ten inches long, and both the horns and 

 ears four, and the tail six ; the head, as in others of the group, 

 is oval, the snout pointed ; the horns, reclined on the pro- 

 longation of the plane of the face, are short, very straight, 

 pointed, closely wrinkled for about six lines, then marked 

 with inequalities for the space of an inch more ; the points 

 diverge outwards ; the ears, situate near the root of the 

 horns, are about the same length, rounded at tip, and the 

 eyes are furnished with heavy eyelashes ; the tail hanging 

 and bush-like ; the anus naked ; the legs are slender 

 without tufts ; the mammae two ; the fur generally soft, 

 recumbent and shining, principally of a dark brown colour, 

 paler on the neck and flanks, grayish on the thighs and 

 buttocks, almost yellow on the throat, and Isabella co- 

 lour along the spine, widening over the loins, where the 

 hair lengthens to two inches ; hair of the head short and 

 close ; anterior part of the cheeks, sides of the nose and 

 chin, of a dirty yellowish- white ; chaffron and forehead of a 

 clear brown, surmounted by a tuft of hairs one inch and a 

 half long, covering the root of the horns ; the external side 

 of the ears brown, the internal grayish ; the tail dark ; the 

 legs chestnut brown. 



This species inhabits the bushy acclivities of the open 

 mountains of Sierra Leone, and the vicinity of the Upper 

 Quia and Pongas rivers. It quits the cover about sun-rise 

 to feed, and is then shot by sportsmen. It is not so fleet as 

 other Antelopes, and its venison is esteemed. From the 

 above account, extracted from the Acta Upsal. by M. 

 Afzelius, this animal is nearly allied to the next, perhaps 

 they form only varieties of the same species. 



