PILATE xxm. 
THE NEW ANTELOPE FROM ST, LUCIA BAY. 
TKAGELAPHUS ANGASH." (Gray). “ INYALA” OF THE AMAZULU. 
“ And as we journey'd up the pathless glen, 
Flunked by roman lie bills on either bund. 
The boaclibok oft would bound away — and then 
Beside the willows, backward gazing, stand. 
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Or troops of e-lunds, near some sedgy fount, 
Or koodoo fawns, that from the thicket glide*. 
To seek their dam upon the misty mount." 
P tit HOLE. 
This netv and brilliant antelope appears to form a link between the bosehbok and koodoo, uniting in itself the 
markings and characteristic features of both. 
Specific Character. Adult male, about seven feet six inches total length; height at shoulder, three feet four inches. 
Although elegant in form, and with much of the grace of the solitude-loving koodoo, the robust, and shaggy aspect 
of the male lnyftln bears considerable resemblance to that of the goat. Legs, clean; hoofs, pointed and black, with 
two oval cream-coloured spots in front of each fetlock, immediately above the hoof; horns, one foot ten inches long, 
twisted, and sublyrate, very similar to those of the bosehbok, bat more spiral: have sharp, polished extremities, of a 
pale straw colour; rest of horns brownish black, deeply ridged from the forehead to about half the length of the 
horn. Prevailing colour, greyish black, tinged with purplish brown and ochre on the neck, flanks, and cheeks, and 
marked with several white stripes like the koodoo. Forehead, brilliant sienna brown, almost approaching to orange; 
mane, black down the neck, and white from the withers to the. insertion of the tail; ears, eight inches long, oval, 
rufous, tipped with black, and fringed inside with white hairs; a pale oehreous circle round the eyes, which are 
connected by two white spots, forming an arrow-shaped mark on a black ground; nose, black; a white spot on 
each side of upper lip; chin and gullet, white; and three white marks under each eye; neck, covered with long shaggy 
hair, extending also under the belly, and fringing the haunches to the knee; two white spots on the Hanks, and a patch 
of long white hair on the anterior portion of the thigh; a white tuft under the belly, and another on the dewlap; on 
the outer side of the forelegs is a black patch above the knee, surrounded by three white spots; legs, below the knee, 
bright rufous colour ; tail, one foot eight inches long, black above, with tip and inside white. 
Female. Smaller, and without horns. Total length, six feet. Nose to insertion of ear, teu inches ; length of ear, 
six inches and a half; height from fore-foot to shoulder, two feet nine inches; tail, one foot three inches; colour, a 
bright rufous, inclining to orange, and becoming very pale on the belly and lower parts, and white inside the thighs; a 
black dorsal ridge of bristly hair extends from the back of the crown to the tail; nose black, and the white spots on 
various parts of the body nearly resembling those of the male, only the white stripes on the sides are more numerous 
and clearly defined, amounting to twelve or thirteen in number; tail, rufous above and white below, tipped with black. 
Young, similar to female, rather paler in colour, and more white spots on flank and sides. 
This antelope inhabits the low undulating hills that are scattered with mimosa-bushes, and border upon the northern 
shores of St. Lucia Bay, in the Zulu country; latitude, twenty-eight degrees south. It is gregarious, occurring in troops 
of eight or ten together, feeding amongst the open thickets. 
Tins addition to the fauna of Southern Africa has been named Tragelaphts Amja&n (in honour of my esteemed 
father, George Fife Angas, Esq.), by the Zoological Society of London, whose Transactions 1 have furnished with a 
description and figures of the animal. It is worthy of remark, that the herd of lnynln we were fortunate enough to 
meet with near St. Lucia Buy is the only one that has yet been seen by Europeans. It is probably u scarce and very 
locally distributed species. 
