PLATE XY. 
1, ANTILOPE MELAMPUS.—THE PALLAH. 
Rooye-bok of the Cape Colonists. Paala of the Matabili and Bechuana. 
Genrric CuaracTeR.—Adult male about three feet four inches high at the shoulder, and six in extreme length. Very 
light and high on the legs. Horns about twenty inches long, of an angular lyrate tendency; ascending obliquely upwards, 
outwards, and backwards; and midway at an obtuse angle, obliquely inwards and forwards; brown, coarsely annulated, and 
striated between for about two-thirds of their length; the rings often splitting into two, and forming prominent nobs on the 
front only, whilst they become partially, and sometimes altogether obliterated on the sides; the tips smooth and polished. Ears 
round, seven ches long, tipped with black. Tail thirteen inches long; pointed, white, with a dark brown .streak down the 
middle. Colour of the head, neck, and upper part of the body, deep fulvous or rust colour. Sides and hinder parts yellow 
dun. Belly white. A dark brown streak down each buttock. A dark spot in place of the spurious hoofs, which do not 
oceur in this species. A large cushion of brown hair between the hock and fetlock. A white spot before each eye. A dark 
spot between the horns. No trace of a suborbital sinus. Small bare space for a muzzle. ; 
Female similar but hornless. Eye very large, soft, and full. Mamme two. Gregarious in small families or herds. In- 
habits the thinly wooded banks of rivers in the Bechuana country. 
2, CEPHALOPUS MERGENS.—THE DUIKER. 
Duiker-bok of the Cape Colonists, Jmpoon of the Matabili. 
Generic CHaraAcTER.—Adult male about two feet high at the shoulder, and three feet eight inches in extreme length. 
Limbs solid. Horns four inches long, approximated, nearly parallel, standing a little outwards, with a longitudinal ridge on the 
front, traversing four or five annuli on the middle, but not traversing the wrinkles of the base. Forehead covered with a patch 
of long bright fulvous hair, terminating in a pencil. A dark streak down the chaffron. Three dark striw inside each ae A. 
dark streak down the front of the legs, terminating in a black fetlock as if booted. Colour various; usually cinereous olive 
above, and white beneath. Tail eight inches long; black, tipped with white. _Pasterns rigid. Spurious hoofs scarcely developed. 
A long suborbital slit traced down the side of the face, but no external, opening visible. A small naked muzzle.. 
Female similar with very tiny horns, almost concealed beneath the long rufous hair.* Mamme four. Solitary or mono- 
gamous. Common throughout the Colony, and especially so towards the sea-coast among bushes and brushwood. 
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* The females of the Cephalopine group are represented to be universally hornless; but every female specimen of the duiker that I have seen, possesses 
short horns, nearly if not totally obscured by the rufous* tuft. 
