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ing with a second transverse line, which commences on the 

 middle, or at the insertion of the shoulder blade with the 

 humerus, and passes obliquely downwards to the groin. On 

 the thighs are nine or ten white spots ; the white lips and 

 chin, two similarly-coloured spots on the lower jaw, and one 

 on each side of the anterior angle of the eye, with a dark 

 blackish spot between them, mark the face ; the tail is long, 

 reaching nearly to the houghs, bay above, white beneath, and 

 black at the end ; the rufous colour extends over the belly, the 

 posterior part of the arm, and hind-legs, leaving a length- 

 ened white streak from the point of the shoulder towards 

 the knees ; from thence the legs are anteriorly dark to the 

 pasterns, and posteriorly white ; the anterior part of the 

 thighs and hind-legs to the hoofs are likewise white, with 

 only a dark spot above the pastern ; the hoofs are rather 

 high, and appear more enlarged than in the former. 



There are, we believe, in the Paris Museum, three speci- 

 mens of this animal, one male and two females. We have 

 seen a male and female in London, and have possessed the 

 skin of a kid nearly adult, which differed from the former 

 only in the rufous colour being more yellow, the streaks on 

 the back being more distant from the spine, and the four 

 lumbar transverse ribs ending in round spots ; besides 

 which there were twenty-one others on the flank and croup, 

 and the lateral streak commenced behind the elbow, with 

 two additional white spots further forward on the shoulder, 

 and two others near the junction of the neck and withers. 

 The length of this skin was not quite three feet six inches, 

 and shewed that the white spots disappear gradually, as the 

 lines become more distinct and extended ; but also that the 

 dorsal white lines approach with age towards the spine, 

 rather than descend to the flanks. The London specimens 

 were all, we believe, brought from the expedition up the 

 river Congo ; and it is worth observing, that Professor 

 Smith, in the few notes of his hand which have been pre- 



