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probably not more than a month old. This skin was already of a lighter 

 ground-colour than that of the foetus, and the yellowish stripes and spots 

 had become much fainter. In the adult animal, both male and female, 

 the colour of the coat is a uniform grayish brown on the body, the stripes 

 and spots having usually completely disappeared, though occasionally a few 

 faint indications of stripes may still be seen. Under the belly and on the 

 throat the hair is whitish, and there is also a fairly well-defined, rather 





broad, white, arrow-shaped mark across the nose, extending to each eye, 

 and also two very ill-defined whitish spots on each cheek. The ears are 

 rounded, but smaller in proportion to the size of the animal than in any 

 other of the tragelaphine antelopes with which I am acquainted. The 

 hair is soft and silky and longer than in any other species of antelope found 

 in the same country. The hoofs are excessively long, and, when splayed 

 out, no doubt prevent the animal from sinking too deeply in the swampy 

 ground in which it lives. As in the lechwe, the skin between the backs of 

 the hoofs and the dew claws is devoid of hair. 

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