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belly, white; the mammae, four in number and pale yellow, 

 form a small udder ; the tail is two inches long, and black ; 

 the hoofs small, very pointed and black: the specimen 

 lived two years in England. No decisive opinion can well 

 be formed respecting the locality of the animal in a syste- 

 matic view, while the male remains unknown, but it 

 appears to form the passage from the present group to the 

 next. We suspect this to be the Philantomba of the 

 Sierra Leone Negroes ; not uncommon there and yet not 

 clearly described *. 



The Slate-coloured Antelope. {A. Ceerula.) This species 

 is known among the Dutch colonists at the Cape, by the 

 name of Blauwbockje, and Kleene Blauwbock, or Little 

 Blue Goat. The male, among the donations of Mr. Bur- 

 chell to the British Museum, measures about twenty-eight 

 inches from nose to tail, nearly thirteen inches at the 

 shoulder, and fourteen at the croup : the head is rather 

 long and pointed, with a small muzzle ; no lachrymary 

 opening is perceptible, but lower down towards the nose 

 there appears an indication of a lower pouch ; the horns 

 are one inch and a half long, recumbent, with the tips 

 turned upwards ; they are round, black, and pointed, hav- 

 ing five semi-annuli in front, partly concealed by the hair ; 

 the ears are rather short, open, and round, white on the 

 inside ; the back part, a space round the eyes and the legs, 

 are buff; the face, cheeks, neck, body, and thighs, a slaty 

 purplish-blue with a cast of brown, which predominates 

 as the specimens continue to be exposed in a stuffed state ; 

 the lips, chin, a spot on the throat, the breast, belly, inside 

 of the limbs, and anterior part of the thighs, white ; the 

 shanks, or cannon bones of the fore-legs, are seven inches 



* Since writing the above, a gentleman, long resident about 

 Sierra Leone, informs us, that the Philantomba is the animal noticed 

 as a kid in the preceding article, in which case it is nearly allied 

 to the Kleenebock, or A. Perptisilla. 



