DAMALIS (STREPSICEROS) capensis. 
Mammalia. — Plates XLII. and XLITI. 
D. superne rufo-griseus, inferne albus, corpore postice strigis verticalibus albis notato ; linea vertibrale alba 
et facie, fasciola angulare ejusdem colons, signata; cornubus spiralibus carinatis; collo sub-jubato. 
Damalis strepsiceros, H. Smith ; Griffith, Translation of the Animal Kingdom of Cuvier, vol. v. 
Antelope strepsiceros, Aucl., Koodoo of the Cape Colonists. 
Plate XLII. — Male. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the neck and body, together with 
the extremities, rufous grey, the grey tint most distinct on the neck and 
shoulders ; the breast, under surface of body, and inner sides of buttocks 
rusty white. The forehead, chaffron, and sides of the head immediately 
behind the angle of the mouth dirty rufous, the cheeks and sides of the head 
posteriorly rusty grey; — the colour of the face broken by the intervention ol 
an angular narrow white bar, which extends from one eye to the other, and 
has its most depending point or angle on the middle ot the chaffron ; the 
hair edging it superiorly, as well as that towards the base of the horns, being 
in general rusty brown. The sides of the head are variegated with several 
small irregular white spots, one in front of each ear, one under each lower 
eyelid, and one on each cheek ; the eyebrows, the chin, and the lips are also 
white. The muzzle black. The ears externally rufous grey, internally rusty 
white ; the mane light rusty brown. Between the shoulders and the base of 
the tail there extends a narrow white line in the course of the vertebral 
column, and from this line there descends seven or eight vertical lines of the 
same colour, part of which are situated on the sides of the body, and part on 
the outer aspect of the buttock. Tail posteriorly brown, anteriorly white,— 
the tuft forming its point dark reddish-brown. Eyes brownish red. Horns 
light brown with a faint greenish tinge; posterior aspect of fetlock joint 
reddish-brown. True and false hoofs brownish black, and the base of the 
latter narrowly edged with hair of a reddish-biow n coloui. 
