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long- ; the posterior to the houghs six inches ; the pasterns 

 only half an inch; the hoofs oval, three-quarters of 

 an inch long, and horn colour ; the spurious hoofs very 

 small but distinct. A female in the Museum of Paris is 

 smaller and lower, the blue colours more distinct, but less 

 white about the belly or limbs. 



There are good figures of this species in Mr. Daniell's 

 Sketches of Southern Africa ; its Dutch name Blauwbokje 

 has caused it sometimes to be confounded with A. Leuco- 

 phcea. The species resides in woods and bushy plains on 

 the borders of the Cape Colony ; it is fleet and cunning, and 

 was formerly more common near Cape Town. 



The Kleenebock. {A. Perpusilla.) This species is some- 

 what less, or about twenty-six inches from the nose to the 

 tail ; the head is shorter, more suddenly pointed to the 

 muzzle ; the form more graceful, but the make of the ears 

 and the appearance of a suborbital sack as in the former ; 

 the colours in general are dull brownish-buff on the face 

 and back, the limbs paler buff, and the throat, belly, and 

 interior side of the thighs, white ; the hair on the forehead 

 is somewhat longer than on the face ; the horns are black, 

 conical, horizontally reclined, slender, and the points 

 slightly turned inwards, and nearly two inches long ; no la- 

 chrymary opening, but the lower slit visible. In the mouth 

 the intermediate incisors are broad and in contact ; the pas- 

 terns are rather long ; the hoofs and the spurious hoofs 

 very small. This species inhabits the under-wood and open 

 forests of the interior of Caffraria, where it is known to the 

 Hottentots by the name of Noumetje, and to the colonists 

 by that of the Kleenebock : we consider it as perhaps a va- 

 riety of the Ccerula, but of a different species from the next. 



The Neotragine Group *. 

 In this section are included the smallest species of the 



* Hino^,juvenis, Tpe^/or, hbcus. 



