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colour, and in other external characters, and some authorities have attempted 
to divide them into several species. Sundevall, in his ‘ Expositio Pecorum,’ 
has described four varieties of the present animal, remarking that all the 
specimens he has examined varied a little amongst themselves. Besides the 
differences in the direction of the hairs on the head, to which he alludes, 
there is much variation in the amount and in the depth of the dark markings 
on the feet, which are quite black in some examples and brown in others. 
Our figure (Plate XLIII.), which has been put upon the stone by Mr. Smit 
from an original drawing by Wolf (kindly lent to us by Sir Douglas Brooke), 
shows this particular feature in its less decided form. Jt was probably taken 
from a mounted specimen in the British Museum, but we regret to say there 
is no absolute certainty upon this point. 
Living specimens of the Reedbuck are occasionally brought to Europe, 
but are rarely seen in our menageries, and do not bear captivity easily. 
The Zoological Society of London received examples of this species in 1864, 
1865, and 1879, but none of them lived long in the Gardens. 
February, 1897. 
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