Bluebuck

A. with sharp-pointed, taper, arcuated horns bending backwards, marked with twenty prominent rings, but smooth towards their points, twenty inches long: ears sharp-pointed, above nine inches in length: larger than a buck: color, when alive, a fine blue; when dead, changes to a bluish grey, with a mixture of white: hairs long: beneath each eye a large white mark: belly white: tail seven inches long; the hairs at the end six inches. From a skin bought at Amsterdam, brought from the Cape of Good Hope; where they are found, but far up the country. This is the species which, from the length of its hair and form of the horns, connects this genus with that of the Goat.

I observed, in the former volume, that in the neighbourhood of this river was once to be found the Leucophæa or blue antelope, but that, for many years past, it had been lost to the colony. I understood, however, that, a few months before we evacuated the Cape, a small herd of this beautiful animal had again made its appearance among the wooded hills behind Sweet Milk Valley, where, instead of suffering them to remain unmolested, at least for some time, the farmers were lying in wait for their destruction.