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WHITE- FACED ANTELOPE,, &C. 
White-faced antelope. 
So great is the similitude between this species 
and the flat-horned antelope, that the chief dif- 
ference appears to consist in size ; this being larg- 
er than a fallow deer. The horns resemble those 
of the animal before mentioned, and are sixteen 
inches long, and about five between tip and tip ; 
they are very strongly annulated in the male, 
but said to be nearly smooth in the female ; the 
face is white ; the cheeks and neck, in the living 
animal, of a bright bay ; the back, and upper 
parts of a ferruginous brown, with a dark stripe 
down the back ; the belly and rump white, as 
was also, in the Leverian specimen, the lower half 
of the legs ; the sides of the body are marked, as 
in many others of this genus, with a dark or 
blackish stripe ; the tail is about seven inches 
long, covered with black hairs, which extend 
some inches beyond the end. The figure of the 
kevel, or flat-horned antelope, in the sixth vo«^ 
lume of the Count de Bu firm’s supplement, so 
perfectly represents this species, that it might pass 
for a very good representation of it ; and Shaw 
confesses himself to be extremely sceptical as to 
the supposed specific distinction of this as well as 
of some other antelopes. 
The specimen which was preserved in the Le- 
verian Museum measured rather more than three 
feet from the hoofs to the top of the shoulders, 
and about five feet to the top of the horns. 
Bitbocsl. 
The ritbock or ritrebock, so named from its 
chiefly frequenting reedy places, was first describ- 
ed by Mr. Allamand, to whom a specimen was 
