SYNOPSIS OF THE 



inches; the horns five inches, slightly elevated above the 

 plane of the face, approximated, parallel, the superior third 

 part alone bent slightly outwards, and the points inwards 

 and forwards ; they are black, round, obtuse at the point, 

 six to seven wrinkles at base, then striated, and above this 

 again irregularly wrinkled, striated, and annulated ; no 

 external opening of the lachrymary sinus visible, and sub- 

 orbital pouch not very evident; ears wide, long, and open, 

 marked with three strias ; a space of long bright fulvous 

 hairs upon the forehead; chaffron black; general colour 

 brownish, rusty above, ashy beneath ; the limbs robust, and 

 fetlocks short and dark-coloured. It is possible that this 

 is an old A. Mergens with the horns diseased, because the 

 two are not exactly alike. 



A. Burchelli, ISlohis MS. 



Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat. Caffraria. 



849. 42. A. Mergens (the Duiker Bock.) Adult male 

 three feet two or six inches in length, twenty-one and 

 twenty-three inches high ; horns four inches long, more 

 distant at base than in the former, more reclining, bending 

 outwards, with a longitudinal ridge on the front, traversing 

 four or five annuli of the middle, but not through the 

 wrinkles at the base ; forehead covered with a patch of 

 bright fulvous coarse hair ; ears five inches long, three dark 

 striae within ; dark streak on the chaffron, and down the 

 front of the legs ; a suborbital slit on the side of the face ; 

 general colour light brown above, and white beneath ; tail 

 short, black, tipt with white. 



A Mergens, Blainv. Cap. Merga, Forster. Duiker Bock 

 of the Dutch Colonists. A. Mergens, Desmar. 



Icon. Nobis male and female. 



Habitat Southern and Western Africa, but principally 

 Caffraria. 



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