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Hope, as well as in other parts of Africa ; that in 

 the female the horns are smaller than in the male, 

 and that the animals do not associate in troops or 

 herds, but only in pairs. The head is white, 

 marked in a singular manner with black, which 

 latter colour forms a kind of triangular patch on 

 the top of the forehead, the point running down 

 between the eyes, and then dilating into a similarly 

 formed patch in an opposite direction, situated 

 on the upper part of the nose, and these two 

 patches are united on each side b}^ a streak or 

 band of black running from the root of each 

 horn, through the eyes, down the cheeks : the 

 end of the nose is milk white. It is observable, 

 says Mr. Klockner, that there are but very few 

 instances in quadrupeds of a black or other co- 

 loured band running across the eyes and cheeks ; 

 the Badger and the Coati-Mondi furnishing almost 

 the only examples The neck and upper part of 

 the body are of a pale blueish grey, with a slight 

 tinge of blossom-colour ; the belly and insides of 

 the limbs are white, but along the lower part of 

 the sides runs a dark or blackish chesnut-coloured 

 stripe, separating the colours of the upper and 

 lower parts : a dark stripe runs along the back 

 to the tail, and a large patch of similar colour is 

 seated on the upper part of the outsides both of 

 the fore and hind legs, and is continued down the 

 front of each leg in form of a stripe, Avhich again 



* The Antilope Leucoryx, or White Antelope, the Myoxus Dryas^ 

 or Wood Dormouse, and some others, might be added to the list. 



