The Guib inhabits the west coast of Africa, from Sierra Leone to the banks of the Senegal, from the latter of which localities it was first brought to Europe by Adanson the naturalist It is said to associate with its own species, and to form extensive herds, which reside equally in the forests and on the open plains, particularly in the vicinity of 'odor and Garet; where these animals are very numerous. Guib is their name in the Joliff language. The colours are sometimes subject to a slight variation as far as regards the number of longitudinal and transverse bands on the sides. Colonel Smith has considered this difference specific, and has bestowed the name of A. phalerata upon the variety with a single longitudinal line on the flanks, retaining the original name of A. scripta for the variety which is marked with two of these lines. This distinction, to say the least of it, is extremely doubtful, and the difference upon which it is founded is in all proba bility merely accidental.
81. T. Decula, the Decula, is of a gray-brown colour. The back has three or four indistinct cross-bands; an arched streak on the upper part of the side, a few spots forming an arch on the haunches ; dorsal line, sireak on nose, and front of fore legs, blackish. It was originally described by Riippell, and is a native of Abyssinia.
82. 7'. sylratica (Antilopc sylcatica, Sparrmann), the Bosch-Boc, measures about 4 feet from the nose to the root of the tail, and is 2 feet 6 inches high at the shoulder. The horns are nearly 1 foot iu length, thick at the base and gradually attenuated, but ending in rather blunt points ; they are twisted on their own axis, but do not form the wide-spreading spiral curves so remarkable in those of the Koodoo : from the base, however, two sharp prominent wreaths, one on the outer and the other on the inter surface, wind spirally round them for the first two-thirds of their length, and are gradually obliterated towards the points, which are smooth and polished. The ears are large and rounded at the tops; the limbs robust but clean and well-formed ; the tail of moderate length, and similar to that of the common Fallow-Deer. The male and female are of different colours ; the ground-colour of the male is a dark sepia-brown above, and white beneath, the head and light and sandy-red, and the extremities fulvous; that of the female reddish-fawn above and white beneath. Two pure white bands cross the throat, one at the junction of the head and neck, and the other at the union of the neck with the chest; the lips and chin are also white ; round white spots mark the cheeks, and sometimes the nose in front of the eyes; similar spots are dispersed irregularly over the hips and thighs, to the amount of a dozen or more on each side, sometimes even forming interrupted lines. The hair is of moderato length, but it is
smooth and lies close to the body ; the backs of the ears are covered with short brown hair; the tail is black above and white underneath, and the pastern joints are marked behind with two oblong spots of the same colour. in very old males the legs become almost uniformly gray, and at all ages there is a white line running down their inner surface even to the very hoof. All these marks are equally found in the females, but not being so prominently contrasted, on account of the lighter ground-colour of this sex, they are not so conspicuous as in the males. There is frequently also a narrow white list along the back, but this is not a constant character in either sex, and is, for the most part, wanting in the females. The young males are of the sante colour as the adults, but rather lighter, and the white spots on the hips and thighs more faintly marked.
The Boach-Boc, or Bush-Goat, as its colonial name implies, resides in the woods, which it never quits but during the bright moonlight nights, or early In the morning, when it coshes out to graze on the border of the forest, or to make incursions into the neighbouring gardens and cormfieldn. Its voice resembles the barking of a dog, and its deceitful tone sometimes leiula the benighted traveller into the most remote and lonely depths of the forest, in the vain search after some human habitation, which he is all the time leaving behind him. It is a slow runner, and easily caught when surprised in tut open situation, but it keeps close to the woods, through which it penetrates with gnat ease, running with the horns couched backwards along the aides of the neck, to prevent them from impeding its course by striking against the branches, and having the motel( and throat frequently denuded by rubbing against the underwood, RN it forces its passage through the thick covers. The species is monogamous, the male and female being always found either alone, or accompanied by one or two kids, but never by tolnIt individuals. it in common enough in Kaffraria, and in such parts of the Cape Colony as have sufficient forest to afford it a secure asylum ; its flesh makes good venison, that of the breast being particularly esteemed.