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THE TAKHAITZE. 
Antilope harhata, — Daniell. 
PLATE XXIII. 
The Takhaitze, Daniell, African Scenery. 
This beautiful Antelope is known from the figure 
of Daniell, which has served for our illustration, and 
it has been surmised that the above was only another 
name for A. equina and leucophata. The following is 
the notice which accompanies Daniell’s plate ; — 
“ This extraordinary animal, tvhich has never be- 
fore been drawn or described, is equally unknown to 
the colonists of the Cape, being first met with in the 
parallel of latitude under which Lalakoo is situated. 
In the neighbourhood of this place we had the goo<l 
fortune to fall in with a couple of them. They are 
exceedingly shy, and, w'hen wounded, dangerous to 
come near ; nor do the Booshuanas consider it safe 
to approach them in the rutting season. They rare- 
ly kill them, as they do most other antelopes, with 
the spear or assagai, hut entrap them in deep pits 
covered with sticks and earth, in the .same manner as 
the Bosjesmans take the hippopotamus. The flesh 
is esteemed a great delicacy. This animal is, in ge- 
neral, from four and a half to five feet high, of a bluish 
