DAMALIS (STREPSICEROS) CAPENSIS. 
Forms, &c. — Figure moderately robust and elegant. Head superiorly 
broad and rather bulky, toward the muzzle narrow and tapered ; the forehead 
is flat and square, the chaffron straight and the muzzle moderately broad. 
Eyes full, soft and expressive. Horns robust and situated on the top of the 
head, almost in contact at their base, but wide apart at their points, and each, 
as it diverges from its base, takes two spiral turns and is furnished with a 
narrow ridge or keel which follows the course of the wreaths described. At 
the base the horns are robust and rather rugous, then somewhat compressed, 
— the points are cylindrical sharp and directed outwards and forwards. Ears 
large and patulous, especially towards their middle, they stand obliquely 
outwards and are acute at the point. The neck is robust, rather long, 
fringed both above and below, with some long and coarse hair which supe- 
riorly forms a sort of mane, about three and a-half inches high, and which 
extends from the base of the horns to the hinder edge of the shoulders ; 
interiorly the long hair is irregularly disposed and forms a thin shaggy coating 
to the throat. Body rounded, the shoulders well developed, and about equal 
in height with the crupper. Limbs elegantly formed and towards the hoofs 
very slender. Tail slender and at its termination has a tuft of long coarse 
hair, which reaches to within a few inches of the houghs. Hoofs narrow and 
anteriorly rather pointed ; false hoofs, short, cylindrical and pointed. Hair 
generally very short; muzzle bare; dewlap slightly developed. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Feet. Inches. 
Length from the horns to the base of 
the tail 7 0 
of the head 1 6 
of the ears 0 8 
of the horns 3 0 
Feet. Inches. 
Height at the shoulder 4 0 
at the crupper 4 0 
Distance between the horns at points 2 7 
Length of the tail 1 7 
Plate XLIII. — Female. 
Colour. — Rather paler than that of the Male, the number of vertical stripes 
generally greater, some of them occasionally bifurcate, and the white is less 
pure, — the upper part of the forehead between the ears is generally mottled 
rusty brown and white. 
