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faintly marked with three or four cross lines on the sides, 

 and one or none on the thighs : in the calves the marks 

 are less perceptible. 



The Koodoos live singly, or in pairs, in the woody dis- 

 tricts of the eastern part of the Cape Colony, and Caffraria, 

 on the plains of the Karoo Mountains, and about the 

 sources of the Gareep, feeding on buds and shrubs : they 

 are becoming daily more scarce. They are very powerful 

 and active, bounding with great force to a considerable 

 height, but like the rest of those animals which are lower 

 behind than before, they are not very fleet when chased by 

 dogs ; the males naturally bold, soon stand at bay and defend 

 themselves with spirit. They are easily tamed, and mild 

 when kept in a menagerie : the females bear but one calf 

 at a time. We have compared five specimens of males, one 

 female, and above thirty heads and fragments ; the best 

 figure extant, is that of Mr. Daniell. 



Among the zoological plates in the Encyclopedia Metho- 

 dique, there is a front view of a head without name 

 which we consider to represent a young male of the above 

 species. 



Professor Herman in his Zoological Observations, de- 

 scribes a pair of horns under the name of A. Torticornis, 

 which appear to belong to the Strepsicerotine group of 

 the present genus. They are slightly rugous, closely spiral^ 

 sub-compressed, and sub-carinated ; measuring in a straight 

 line twenty-three inches, and on the curves twenty-six 

 inches, six lines, French measure, or about twenty-eight 

 inches English ; they weigh one pound thirteen ounces. 

 Native country unknown. 



Professor Afzelius in the Nov. Act. Upsal. tab. 8, fig. 3, 

 represents a round horn, turned spirally, once and a half in 

 a loose ascent, with a slight ridge ; the base finely wrinkled, 



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