350 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



here applied, bearing the same interpretation as beast with 

 English grazers, and therefore Hartebeest signifies Ox- 

 Stag. There is a fine specimen of a male in the British 

 Museum, and one of an old female in the Museum of the 

 Missionaries in London. 



The Collared Damalis. (D. Suturosa.) This species, very 

 recently noticed and described by Mr. Otto under the name 

 of Ant. Suturosa, belongs, unquestionably, to this genus, 

 and most probably to the present racemus. Its structure 

 is, in general, rather heavy, assuming a bovine appearance; 

 the body is long and bulky, the head large, the neck short 

 and thick, and the limbs low and strong ; the internal edge 

 of the nostrils is naked and black ; the eyes are rather 

 small ; the ears middle-sized, of the usual form, and lined 

 within with hair ; there is no appearance of a suborbital 

 sinus ; the horns are large, annulated, round, with double 

 flexures, nearly vertical at base, then suddenly bent back- 

 wards and outwards, the remainder turning again so that 

 the long smooth points are directed upwards and to the 

 rear ; the tail it flat at base, stiff, and becomes very slender, 

 terminating with a tuft of hair, which hangs down to the 

 heels ; the mammae are four in number. The colour of the 

 animal is in general a gray-brown, turning yellowish, but 

 the croup, the belly, feet, and lips, are white ; on the fore- 

 head is a space of blackish-brown hair, above which a large 

 white spot is found, irregular in form, and two others of 

 the same colour, but smaller in size, are marked, one be- 

 hind the eye, and the other beneath the ear ; that organ is. 

 of a paler colour than the rest of the fur, and on the edge 

 and within, white ; the tail is whitish, but the tuft of a 

 mixed white and brown. 



This hair is dry and fragile, as in the Stag, and its length 

 very unequal ; on the face and chaffron short ; the dark 

 space on the forehead longer and spreading. Upon the neck 

 there are three streaks of long hairs like collars, rather 



