260 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



The Broad-eared Antelope. (A. Platous*.) There exist in 

 the Museum of the Missionary Society of London, the spoils 

 of an antelope belonging to this group, brought from the 

 Cape, under the wrong name of Steenbock. The.specimen is 

 enclosed in a case, and in a recumbent attitude* and when 

 the sketch and notes were taken, it was placed in an un- 

 favourable light ; some inaccuracy may, therefore, exist in 

 the description. It is estimated to be in length equal to 

 the preceding, with a very pointed snout and diminutive 

 muzzle. The horns are sub-erect, not five inches long, black, 

 straight, divergent, round, and very sharp at the tips, 

 somewhat irregularly annulated to three-fourths of their 

 length ; the ears are very wide, pointed, longer than the 

 horns, whitish within, and dun-coloured on the outside ; 

 the eyes are large, edged with black eyelashes, and beneath 

 them, more on the cheek than usual, is a black spot, mark- 

 ing the suborbital opening. From the vicinity of the nos- 

 trils the chaffron is dark sepia, spreading wider at the 

 commencement of the forehead, from whence the hair is 

 more lengthened and bristly, of a bright brown, and turned 

 upwards, so as to cover the base of the horns. Round the 

 nose and mouth, the fur is close and fine, of a yellowish 

 white and fawn colour on the cheeks, round the eyes and 

 temples. The back of the neck is brown, becoming paler 

 as it approaches the throat, by a mixture of fawn colour, 

 and the throat itself is almost white ; the shoulders and 

 back are of the same mixture of brown, fulvous, and fawn 

 colours, but we observed no lengthened hair on the croup, 

 as in the former ; the belly and inside of the limbs are 

 gray ; the legs fine and firm, yellowish-brown in colour, 

 without tufts, and the hoofs small, pointed, and black ; the 

 tail is of the colour of the back, not bushy, and appears 

 full six inches long, but without a terminal tuft. The spe- 



* nX«Tvy, latus, ovs, aiiris. 



