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in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, east of Camtoos 

 River. It is monogamous, living concealed in deep forests, 

 most active in the night, when its voice, consisting in a 

 kind of barking, sometimes deceives travellers, inducing 

 them to fancy that they are near human habitations, when, 

 in fact, the voice of the Boschbock is a sure indication that 

 they are far from the haunts of man. From some cause, not 

 satisfactorily explained, the males are often found with the 

 throat bare, as if worn off by running through under-wood; 

 but that supposition does not agree with the invariable law 

 of nature, which provides completely for the necessary cir- 

 cumstances of the assigned locality of its creatures ; it is 

 more probably the effect of disease, or of the attack of 

 insects. 



The Harnessed Antelope. (A. Scripta.) Mr. Adanson 

 first noticed the Guib, or Harnessed Antelope, and Buffon 

 both figured and described the male. It is an animal of 

 considerable beauty, more slenderly formed than Sylvatica, 

 about the size of a fallow-deer ; four feet eight inches 

 long, two feet seven inches and a half at the shoulder, and 

 two feet eight inches and a half at the croup ; the ears are 

 five inches long, and the tail six inches; the horns of the 

 male are black, about seven inches long, recumbent, or on 

 the same plane with the face, placed high, straight., with a 

 slight wave, rather stout at base, with two ridges twisting 

 spirally one and a half turn round their axis ; the eyes are 

 without lachrymary opening, but the anterior lids are pro- 

 longed, and the muzzle is a mere naked space between the 

 nostrils ; the colour of the head, back of the ears, neck, 

 back, flanks, belly, croup, and exterior side of the limbs, is 

 a bright fulvous-bay; the nose, mouth, under jaw, throat, 

 breast, a long streak upon the anterior part of the upper 

 arm, the anterior side of the thigh, and a little about the 

 hoofs, are white ; two narrow white lines pass on each side 

 from the withers downwards, in an oblique direction, one 



