Bl BALLS CAAMA.— Ogilby. 
Mammalia.— Plate XXX.— Male. 
. . • f ac ie vertice, macula ad basin auris, lined cervicali 
Longitudo fc naso ad basin omde 6 ped. 11 unc. ; caudm 1 P ed 4* unc. 
Altitudo ad interscapulium 3 ped. lOf unc. ; ad prynam 3 ped. 6* unc. 
Hartbeest, Spamnan , Voyage to tbe Cape of Good Hope, vol. n. p. 199. 
Antilope Caama, Sckreb, Goldfuss, pp. H. 74.; tab. 277 
Antilope Bubalis, Pallas, Erxleb. Gmel. Bodd. 
Hartebeest of tbe Cape Colonists.-KAMA of the Becliuanna. 
Colour -The colour of the head, neck, and body intermediate between 
light brownish orange and yellowish brown ; the back, the s.des of the nee 
superiorly, the outer surfaces of the shoulder and the — ££> " 
haunch darkest, being nearly of a cinnamon colour The bel y and the 
inner surface of the limbs towards the body rusty white. T he forehead an 
c laffron from a little below the eyes to the nostrils, are brownish red, and 
“’o marks are separated from each other by a transverse baud aW 
three inches in depth, of the same colour as the body. From the forehead 
the brownish red colour is continued between the horns^ behind which it 
oreads out and forms the tint of the crown of the head. From each side of 
tL dark colour of the crown, a broad stripe of the same hue proceeds down- 
wards and forwards, and forms an edging to the base of each eai in crior y 
and anteriorly ; while another stripe of a narrower character and fainter hue 
<ls • I the back of the neck, and terminates either at the shoulder 01 
rte cmup The same colour occurs also upon all the extremities 
at the crotp ^ outer surfaces , above the knees and houghs. At 
most abunda y ^ jointSi it exte nds almost completely round the 
hmbs 01 hu°t higher than that it is confined to the outer surfaces, and even does 
limbs, but 111 thighs anteriorly and of the 
not occupy the whole of these^ ^ theb * ody; on both the anterior 
arid p^terior Extremities, it terminates a little above the line of the belly 1 on. 
