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jects somewhat pointedly, forming an incipient dewlap, 

 lined with coarse hair ; the hoofs are pointed, black, and 

 strong-. 



The Caama is a majestic animal, whose shoulder is not 

 so high in proportion as in the former, measuring at the 

 withers five feet in height ; the croup is not greatly de- 

 pressed, and the length of a full-grown specimen, from 

 nose to tail, exceeds seven feet and a half. The female is 

 nearly a foot lower in stature, the horns are shorter, legs 

 prominently knotted, and the points shorter ; the colours of 

 the fur are distributed in a similar manner, excepting the 

 black on the hind-legs which extends down the hough to 

 near the fetlock, where it ends in a kind of band : this 

 colour is often only deep brown. The hide of both is black, 

 as are also the mammae. In the half-grow r n calf the colour 

 is entirely buff, excepting the triangular space on the 

 rump, which, however, is much smaller, and the black ap- 

 pears faintly upon the pasterns; the horns are nearly 

 straight, parallel, and slightly wrinkled. In the Paris spe- 

 cimen the horns appear pressed together, no doubt from 

 package and drying in that form ; a circumstance which has 

 misled Zoologists on other occasions. 



This species resides in small flocks of ten or twelve, on 

 the more barren parts of the interior of Caffraria. The 

 males, who head a family, expel the adults of their sex ; 

 they are not very swift, and stop to turn round when pur- 

 sued ; they fight by dropping on the knees, like the Neel- 

 ghau ; their voice is not unlike a kind of sneezing. The 

 venison is very good, with a flavour of beef; but they 

 have been so much hunted that the species is become 

 rare within the colony. The female bears but one calf, 

 which is brought forth in September or April. It is the 

 Caama of the Caffre, the Hartebeest of the Colonists, and 

 Cervine Antelope of Pennant and Shaw ; who have thus 

 confused the meaning of the Dutch word beest, as it is 



