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and outwards ; they are slightly rugous at the base, then 

 smooth, pale, darkening near the summit, and the points 

 white, standing close on the head, and regularly diverging; 

 the spirals of the turns so exactly arranged, that a spear 

 might be thrust into the temples, through both the open- 

 ings of the curves ; the forehead is flat and square, the 

 chaffron straight, and the muzzle broad. The ears stand 

 out obliquely as in the Ox, broad in the middle, and pointed 

 at the tip ; the neck is thick, the withers high ; the croup 

 rather depressed, and the dewlap anteriorly square. On 

 the forehead the colour of the hair is black ; a white line 

 passing over the orbits, unites and forms a kind of crescent 

 on the chaffron ; the chin likewise is white, and furnished 

 with a kind of beard, which, as in the Aigoceri, soon drops 

 out ; but from the throat to the end of the dewlap depends 

 a long and loose fringe of coarse black hair, and a similar 

 ridge forms a mane on the neck, and stands up over the 

 withers to the middle of the back. Beneath this mane a 

 line of white hair passes down the spine to the tail, tra- 

 versed by four or five others from behind the shoulders to 

 the hips, and two, three, or four more across the croup, 

 forming in all eight or nine cross streaks, which terminate 

 at the belly, or on the thigh ; the edge of the buttocks is 

 white down to the houghs, and long hairs of the samp 

 colour fill the anterior part of the ears ; the chaffron, sides 

 of the head, back of the ears, shoulders, body and croup, 

 are of a buff-gray, usually appearing darker in stuffed spe- 

 cimens ; the inside of the ears, behind the white piles, 

 throat, dewlap, belly, and legs rufous-buff; the tail, which 

 does not reach to the houghs, is white above, edged with 

 grayish-dun, and terminated with long black hairs ; the 

 hoofs are short and firm. The male is from three feet eight 

 inches to four feet high at the shoulder, and above eight 

 feet long, exclusive of the tail, which measures two feet. 

 The female is some inches lower, without horns, and more 



