348 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



skins; in one of an old male, a tuft on the throat was observ- 

 able, but scanty and deciduous ; perhaps the season of copu- 

 lation is indicated by its presence : the young animal ia 

 like a domestic calf, and wholly pale buff. 



The Caama. (D. Caama.) Baron Cuvier first separated 

 this species from the foregoing, to which it has considerable 

 resemblance in stature, colour, and in the curves of the 

 horns. The head is still longer but finer than in the for- 

 mer, the horns placed so high as to stand upon a ridge 

 elevated above the frontals, and so close together that they 

 have been described as forming but one root ; they are very 

 robust and black, anteriorly with ponderous knots, diverg- 

 ing at base in a parallel direction with the forehead, then 

 suddenly turning forward, and the superior half again bent 

 back, and ending in sharp points ; the knots are five or six, 

 extending to beyond the backward flexure, and the rest 

 smooth. At the base of the horns there is a large black 

 spot, and from the centre of the forehead a broad streak of 

 the same colour passes down the face to near the nostrils ; 

 the chin, and a narrow line on the ridge of the neck, are 

 black, also a streak communicating on the middle of the 

 shoulder, passing downwards on the anterior face of the 

 fore-legs, and ending upon the pasterns, and on the middle 

 of the thighs a broad streak of similar colours defines the 

 base of a large triangular white space which covers the 

 buttocks, and from thence passes to the houghs ; the tuft 

 at the end of the tail is black ; the head, back of the ears, 

 neck, shoulders, outside of the legs, flanks, and hollow part 

 of the thighs, are of a lively ochry yellow, darkening on the 

 summit of the shoulders, back, and croup, into a bright 

 rufous, as far as the posterior part of the hips, where the 

 point of the white triangle commences ; the region round 

 the mouth, inside of the ears, internal face of the fore-legs, 

 breast, belly, inside of the thighs, and anterior part of 

 the hind-legs, are white; the edge of the sternum pro- 



