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in the former, black, with a little fawn at the sides ; the 

 posterior legs and internal face of the thighs are blackish 

 ash colour, the anterior of the same tone having only a 

 small streak at the back of the arm paler ; the female is 

 more coarsely fawn, and ashy gray on the back and sides, 

 but the black streak down the face is very conspicuous, 

 ending in a broad pointed tuft above the forehead. 



The male measures, from nose to tail, about twenty-seven 

 inches in length ; the head six ; the stature at the shoulder 

 seventeen, and at the croup eighteen inches: the pair 

 were brought from Senegal, and were excessively active 

 and timid. There is a skin of a fawn, probably of this spe- 

 cies, in the British Museum, brought from Sierra Leone, 

 it is eighteen inches long, the horns just pointing above 

 the hair, seated far back, about half an inch in length ; the 

 head is oval, with small muzzle, and a slit on each side of 

 the nose; the ears rounded at tip , mouse colour: general 

 colour, dark brown and red gray. 



Maxwell's Antelope. (A. Maxwelln.) A specimen some- 

 what inferior in size was brought home from Sierra Leone 

 by Colonel Charles Maxwell. It was an adult female, 

 which produced a kid while in captivity. Comparing this 

 animal with the female Grimm, the differences are that its 

 size is somewhat inferior and more elegant ; the head, seen 

 in front, is squarer above the orbits ; the ears are longer 

 and more pointed ; the muzzle is equally full and round, 

 but beneath the eye there is a blackish spot, and low down 

 on the cheek a puncture opening the pouch, corresponding 

 nearly with the upper maxillary perforation ; the forehead 

 and nose are dark coloured, with a streak on each side 

 above the eyes, resembling brows ; between these and the 

 eyes, the cheeks and sides of the face, the colour is pale 

 dun ; the neck, back, and croup, dark brownish-dun, 

 lighter on the flanks ; the inside of the ears, breast, in- 

 ternal face of the legs, and anterior part of the thighs and 



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