PLATE VII. 
ACRONOTUS CAAMA.—THE CAAMA OR HARTEBEEST. 
Hartebeest of the Cape Colonists.—Intoosel of the Matabili—Caama of the Bechuana and Kafirs. 
GENERIC CHARACTER.—Adult male about five feet high at the withers, and nine in extreme length. Crupper very 
drooping ; shoulder very elevated; carcase robust; head remarkably narrow, heavy and long. The whole animal made up of 
triangles. Horns seated upon the summit of a beetling ridge above the frontals; very close together, and almost touching at 
the base; robust, divergent, and again approximating, so as to describe an imperfect lozenge, with double flexures strongly pro- 
nounced, turned obtusely forwards, and again acutely backwards, thus forming a zigzag of two angles; the points directed 
horizontally to the rear, and the whole embossed with five or six prominent knots on the anterior surface only. Coat—short, close, 
and glossy. General color bright orange-sienna, with a deep red and crimson cast, abruptly streaked and painted as follows. A 
black spot at the base of the horns above the forehead, continued behind, and terminating in front of the ear. A black streak 
down the nose, commencing below the eyes, and terminating at the nostrils. Chin black. A narrow black list stripe down the 
ridge of the neck. A black streak down the front of each fore-leg, commencing about mid-shoulder, and gradually diminishing 
in width; another down each hind leg, commencing about the middle of the buttock—all terminating in an angular band above 
the fetlock. A triangular spot of white immediately above the black on each buttock, and a yellow spot above each eye. Tail 
reaching to the hocks, covered with posteriorly directed glossy black hair. Legs slender, with taper hoofs. Ears whitish, long, 
pointed, and flexible. A half muzzle. No suborbital sinus, but a constant mucous discharge of a waxy nature. Eyes wild, high 
in the head, and of a fiery red color. 
Female precisely similar but on a slighter scale, with more slender horns; fainter in color, and of a hue approaching to _ 
yellow and cinnamon. Mammez two. Almost extinct within the limits of the Colony. Inhabits the open plains of the interior, 
beyond the Orange River, in considerable herds. 
