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turoa, and the Indian antelope of Pennant. The male of one 
which we shot measured ten feet and a half in length, and six 
feet and a half in height, but it was considered by the boors 
as being of an extraordinary size. 
Upon the plains of the Sea-Cow river, we fell in with 
springboks in countless troops, with hartebeests, and bonte- 
boks. The last antelope is marked in the same manner as the 
scripta of the Sy sterna Naturm ; but the brown colour is of a 
darker tint, and the animal is considerably smaller than the 
bontebok of Zwellendam. Quachas from fifty to a hundred 
in a troop were hourly seen. The smaller kinds of game were 
also very plentiful. Hares were continually among the horses' 
feet. Of this animal are four known species in or near the 
colony ; the common hare, the Cape hare, the mountain hare, 
and the red-rumped hare. Of the last, the exterior part of 
the thighs and its long tail are of a deep chesnut color, and 
the ears are much shorter than in the others. Cape partridges 
and the Namaaqua grouse were equally plentiful. The latter 
is a gregarious bird, and we usually met with it in large coveys 
near all the springs of water. So little were they intimidated 
at the approach of our people, that they suffered themselves 
to be knocked dovvu with whips and sticks. A new species 
of korhnen or bustard was also seen here ; it appeared to be 
something like the tetrix or French field-duck, but was so very 
wild and scarce that not one of them could be procured. The 
Egyptian black ihis (niger,) and another species of tantalus, 
called by the farmers the haddadas, were obtained at this 
place. The latter uttered the most horrid screams that can 
be imagined. I believe it has not yet been described. The 
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