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met with in pairs or three together — male, female, and the last season’s 
fawn. Although four inches is above the average length for klipspringer 
horns in South Africa, and the record length is said to be only five and 
seven-eighths inches, I was once given a very abnormal pair by Mr Henry 
Boyne, a trader at Sechele’s Station, in Bechuanaland, which measured 
eight inches. This pair of horns, obtained by a native in the district, was 
given me as a very remarkable pair of klipspringer horns, and I am quite 
sure that they were klipspringer horns; but as I had not myself shot the 
animal to which they had belonged, I regret to say that I did not accept 
them, and what became of them eventually I do not know. 
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