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nearly three inches thick, is one inch; they gradually 

 widen from thence to the diftance of five inches from 

 each other, when they turn inwards, fo that at the tip 

 they are not above three inches and a half afunder ; they 

 are of a deep-black colour, annulated above half way up ; 

 toward the top they are quite fmooth, and end in a {harp 

 point. 



The predominant colour of this animal is brown, or a 

 light ruft colour: The breaft, belly, and infide of the 

 limbs, are white ; as is alfo the head, excepting a dark- 

 brown lift, which paffes from each corner of the mouth, 

 over the eyes, to the bafe of the horns : A {tripe of the 

 fame dark colour extends, on each fide, from the {boul- 

 ders to the haunches, forming a boundary between the 

 fnowy whitenefs of the belly and the rufty colour of the 

 fides : The buttocks are white ; and, from the tail half 

 way up the back, is a ftripe of white, bounded on each 

 fide by a dark-brown lift : The tail, at leaft the lower 

 part of it, is not thicker than a goofe-quill ; the under 

 fide is quite bare ; towards the tip there are a few dark- 

 brown hairs, from one to two inches and a half long: 

 The ears are of an aih colour, tipt on the edges with 

 fine light-grey hairs : The eye-brows and whilkers are 

 black : The hair in general is fine and {fiort ; but the 

 dark line which borders upon the white, confifts of 

 longer hairs, which the animal is able to expand to the 

 breadth of eight or nine inches, particularly on taking a 

 high leap. When purfued, it is no lefs pleafant than cu- 

 rious to fee the whole herd jumping over each other's 

 heads to a confiderable height : Some of them will take 

 three or four high leaps fucceflively. In this fituation, 

 they feem fufpended in the air, looking over their (houi- 



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