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almost the colour of an English mole — abundantly striped and spotted 

 with pale yellow. In 1887 1 obtained from the natives on the Chobi 

 River the skin of a situtunga taken from its mother before birth. The 

 ground-colour of this beautiful little skin was of a deep blackish hue 

 (darker than an English mole-skin), and the hair beautifully fine, soft and 

 velvety. It was very plainly striped and spotted with bands and spots of 

 yellowish white. The yellowish bands were seven or eight in number, and 



the spots ran in a line from behind the shoulder along the sides below the 

 ends of the stripes to the hind-quarters, which were profusely spotted. I 

 remember remarking that the stripes and spots were arranged exactly as 

 they are on the coat of the adult male bushbuck found on the southern 

 bank of the Chobi River, which shows, I think, that the situtunga and the 

 bushbuck have both been evolved from one original form of antelope, 

 within comparatively recent times — geologically speaking. I also 

 procured at the same time the skin of a very young situtunga antelope, 



