SPECIES OF MAMMALIA, 



inches long ; ears longer, open, pointed ; general colour 

 chocolate-rufous, below white ; groin naked and black ; tail 

 not protruding beyond the hairs ; pasterns short. 



A. Tragulus Rupestris, Forst. Lichten. Tragulus, Des- 

 mar. A. Dama, Cuv. A. Ibex, Afzel. Steenbock of the 

 Dutch Colonists. 



Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat. The bushes of high mountains in CafFraria. 



839. 32. * iL. Rufescens (the Vlackte Steenbock.) Male 

 very high on the legs, two feet six inches from nose to tail ; 

 horns reclining slightly with the points turned upwards, 

 round, smooth, without wrinkles or annuli, parallel, three 

 inches and a half long, one inch and a half asunder at base, 

 two inches from tip to tip ; ears four inches and a half 

 long ; head squarer than the former, small black muzzle ; 

 general colour bright fulvous red, with a cast of crimson, 

 beneath white ; tail very short. 



A. Rufescens, Burchell, MS. Vlackte Steenbock of the 

 Dutch. 



Icon. Nobis male and female. 



Habitat. The open plains of CafFraria, very rare. 



840. 33. * A. Grisea (the Grysbock.) Adult male 

 nineteen and twenty inches high, three feet long ; head 

 oval, six inches long; horns four inches, smooth, round, 

 vertical, slender, inclining forward, one inch and a quarter 

 asunder at base, three inches from tip to tip ; muzzle small 

 and black ; ears four inches and a quarter long, broad, open ; 

 colour deep chestnut-red, intermixed with numerous single 

 white hairs ; beneath rufous. 



A. Grisea, Cuv. A. Melanotis, Lichtenstein. Grysbock 

 of the Dutch. 



Icon. Nobis male and female. 



Habitat. Shrubby mountainous regions of CafFraria. 



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