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termix, and beyond the Gareep, upon the Great Desert, 

 they are more numerous, but unattended by the other two 

 species. There is a drawing in the Banksian library of this 

 animal, by Dr. Forster; it is a young male which was kept 

 in the Menagerie of the Cape. Mr. Daniell has figured an 

 adult female, under the name of a variety of the Cape 

 Elk * ; we have compared these with the skin of an adult 

 male, and with several skulls. 



The Strepsicerotine Group. 



Several Antilopine characters are recalled in the forms of 

 this group, but others approach the genus Bos even more 

 than the last. Of the former, the ridge and spiral figure of 

 the horns, and the constant white mark passing over the 

 eyes and across the chaffron, shew an affinity with the last 

 species of the Oryges ; of the latter, the texture of the 

 horns, smooth, without wrinkles, pale in colour, and dark 

 only at the tips : the breadth of the muzzle and real dew- 

 lap, evidently bring the group into the intermediate state 

 of the present genus. On the neck there is a long mane, 

 and a beard on the chin ; the osseous nucleus of the horns 

 is porous at the upper end, and provided with a deep 

 cavity near the base, communicating at the back of the 

 head, with blood vessels passing over the parietal bone ; 

 the lachrymary sinus is wanting ; the ears are broad and 

 open, and the structure of the legs firm. The females are 

 without horns, and are provided wilh four mammae, form- 

 ing a small udder. This group is confined to Africa. 



The Koodoo. (D. Strepsiceros.) This magnificent ani- 

 mal is chiefly distinguished by the horns being placed on 

 the summit of the frontal bones, bulky at base, compressed, 

 marked anteriorly with a ridge, forming along with the 

 horns two complete spiral circles, the tips turned forward 



* Sketches fyc. of Southern Africa, 1820. 



