PLATE XIV. 
AIGOCERUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS.— THE WATER-BUCK. 
Water-bok of the Hollanders. Phitomok of the Matabili. 
Generic CuarActrer.— Adult male four feet six inches high at the withers; nearly nine feet in extreme length. 
Carriage particularly stately. Figure cervine. Back straight. Neck raking. Horns upwards of thirty inches long, ‘placed almost 
perpendicularly on the cranium; ponderous, curved forwards, and sometimes rather inwards at the tips, but always diverging 
from the base; of a whitish green colour; the first third slightly compressed, the other two thirds nearly cylindrical; very 
strongly and closely annulated along the front and outside, to within six inches of the points, which are jet black. Chaffron 
intense sepia brown. Forehead, base of horns, and behind the eyes, rufous. A white patch on the throat. Under lip and 
muzzle white. A white streak before each eye, and a white elliptical band strongly defined, encircling the tail in its upper 
focus, by passing over the croup, down the posterior face of each hip, and uniting between the thighs. Ears cervine, rounded, 
and ample — white inside, sepia without. Hide black, and in many parts visible through the hair, the general colour of which 
is greyish sepia brown, in texture coarse, crisped, and resembling split whalebone; scantier on the body, but on the neck long, 
white, and reversed, wearing the semblance,of a mane. Legs dark brown, muscular, and cervine in appearance. Tail slender, 
brown, and tasselled at the end like that of the lion—reaching not quite to the hocks. A muzzle. No suborbital indent. 
Female precisely similar, but hornless, hind-like, and very feminine. Mamme two. Gregarious in small herds and 
families. Found only on, or near, the banks of rivers towards the Tropic, the Limpopo and Mariqua especially. 
