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lips white. ars with tip and the adjacent edges black. From the dark 
inter-ramal area to the chest extends a black stripe along the throat; the hairs 
of this region long, forming a mane, which at one spot near the middle of the 
throat is produced into a pointed crest or beard. Mane of nape blackish ; 
a black line traceable along the back as far as the rump. Rump black or 
clouded with black above, the black extending on to the root of the tail, 
the tuft of which is entirely black. Along the sides of the body above 
the belly, which is white, extends a broad black stripe, continuous in 
front with the black area of the chest and passing behind on to the 
lower part of the thigh, where it expands into a broad black patch 
covering the outer side of the hind leg as far as the hock and spreading 
round the leg on its inner side. Hind legs below the hocks nearly white, 
except for a longitudinal black stripe on the front of the cannon-bone. 
Fore legs white below knee, with a black spot or stripe on the front of the 
cannon-bone ; above the knee on the outer and inner side the leg is black 
almost up to the shoulder, but on the inner side it is sometimes white above, 
the white area extending for a short distance on to the front of the leg at 
its base. 
Horns nearly straight, rarely attaining a length of about 47 inches, more 
commonly less than 40. A skull has the following dimensions :—Basal 
length 14:5 inches, eye to nose 10, greatest width 6°26. 
Female similar to the male, but slighter, with longer and more slender 
horns, which are less distinctly ringed and sometimes slightly bent. 
' Hab. Arid deserts of South-west Africa, from Bechuanaland north to 
Mossamedes. 
The Dutch colonists who settled at the Cape in the course of the seven- 
teenth century named the principal Antelopes which they met with there after 
the animals in Europe that they supposed to be their closest allies, or to 
be most nearly similar to them, but in many cases very inappropriately. 
Thus the “Eland” received its name from the Elk (Alces machlis), the 
“‘Reh-bok” from the Roe (Capreolus caprea), and the present Antelope from 
the Chamois or Gemse of the Alps (Rupicapra tragus), although in all these 
cases it is difficult to discern much resemblance between the European 
species and the South-African animals which were called after them. 
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