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when measured in a straight hne from the base to the tip ; and 
their points were nearly that distance apart. Their position on the 
skull was about two inches and a half asunder, and reclining a little 
behind the facial line. The general color of this antelope was, when 
living, a dark iron-grey, or what a painter would call a light blue- 
black ; but which changed to a lighter and browner hue after the 
skin had become dry. The whole of the face, as far even as the 
ears, was almost black ; and this mark, with the form of the horns 
and greater size, constitute the only obvious difference between this 
animal and the Blesbok. * The nose, and sides of the face, were of a 
purplish brown ; and the ears were of the same color as the rest of the 
body, excepting some white hairs which fringed their inner margin^ 
The legs were of a tawny or reddish brown, but of a darker, or 
blackish, color in front down to the knees. The feet, below the two 
spurious hoofs were blackish ; and these hoofs, of a roundish form, 
and placed at equal heights. The real hoofs were black ; and those 
of the fore-feet rather more than four inches long. Their pointed 
* The Blesbok is so called, from having a white mark on its forehead, similar to that 
which, in horses, is termed, in Dutch, a bles, and by English horsemen a star, or blaze. 
Late systematic writers have applied to the Blesbok the name of Pygarga (W)iite-rump), 
which, by earlier authors, was intended for the Springbok : and as this name becomes 
absurd and contradictory when thus used, I have taken the liberty of substituting in its 
place, that of albifrons. 
