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they approximate to each other much at base ; the shoulders 

 of the animal are greatly elevated; the back slopes down con- 

 siderably towards the croup ; a black space surrounds the 

 root of the horns, and extends down the face ; the legs are 

 dark anteriorly, and the ears are very long. This descrip- 

 tion, though destitute of dimensions, approaches the figure 

 to Bubalis, but is insufficient to fix it in the present genus. 

 Mr. Burchell, however, during his valuable travels in 

 Africa, obtained a specimen of an unknown species ; the 

 skin was injudiciously mutilated at the Cape, but the parts 

 re-united, are still sufficient to determine that it belongs 

 either to the Sassayby of Daniell, or to a species nearly 

 allied to it ; the doubt arising solely from the want of di- 

 mensions and description of that species, and from the 

 horns in the plaie, which represents the male, being rather 

 slender, bent outwards and upwards, with four prominent 

 annuli ; the neck long, and the body and limbs slender ; 

 whereas, Mr. Burchell's are the spoils of a female with 

 robust horns, rising on the summit of the frontal crest, 

 at base rather close together, swelling out a little for- 

 wards and then backwards, with the upper ends again for- 

 ward, the general sweep being lateral, and rounding up- 

 wards, with the points turned towards each other, thus 

 forming two segments of a circle, and when seen in front, 

 representing together a perfect crescent. They are two 

 inches asunder, nine inches and a half long, five inches and 

 a half in circumference at base, and ten inches distant at 

 the tips : near the root are six distinct and rather distant 

 wrinkles, above which are six obscure or incomplete an- 

 nuli, the whole occupying about half of the length, the rest 

 being smooth, and the colour black. The skin is four feet 

 six inches long from the nose to the tail ; the neck short, 

 the body bulky, and the head broad at top with a convex 

 forehead, and bearing a Bubaline appearance ; the height 

 at the shoulder, in the present state of the subject, is about 



