BOSELAPHUS OREAS.
F orm, &c.f§Head small, for the size of the animal, rather delicately made,
and with a gentle and somewhat ovine expression ; neck tapered superiorly
rather deep, and bulky towards chest. Body heavy, robust, and rounded;
limbs elegantly made, and rather slender; hoofs small, false hoofs subhemi-
spherical. Tail slender, with a bushy tuft of long hair at the point. Forehead
rather broad, and covered with a dense coating of long rigid hair, all of which
is inclined backwards and towards the centre of the head ; the hair covering
the lower part of the face and the sides is short and recumbent, that on the
under surface of lower jaw longest and very wiry; on the sides of the upper
lip, towards the muzzle, some long bristles, others on the under surface of the
lower jaw. Eyes moderately large, full, and soft; eyelashes bristly and
long. Lachrymal punctum small, circular, and situated a little in front of
the inner canthus of the eye, in a narrow longitudinal bare stripe, which
extends forwards from the union of the two eyelids. Horns placed on the
crown of the head, upwards and backwards from the eyes; they slope
slightly backwards and are very thick towards the base, near which each is
so twisted as to exhibit two spiral turns, each turn having superimposed an
obtuse spiral ridge ; the two last thirds of the horns straight, and tapered to
a point. Ears long, narrow, pointed, and internally with three longitudinal
hands of rather long coarse hair, outer surface covered with short hair.
The hair of the neck is abundant, and longer than that on the body ; that of
the mane is reversed, is longer than that of the neck and shortest towards the
hinder part of the shoulders, where it terminates ; the hair of the dark dorsal
line, and of the back, sides, belly, and legs rather thinly set, short, and
directed backwards on the body and downwards on the limbs. The hair of
the tail is very short till close to the point, where,, in the form ol a tuft, it is
nearly eight inches long. Dewlap situated near to the breast; subovate,
compressed, and edged with a fringe of long rigid hair ; muzzle bare..
DIMENSIONS.
Feet:
Length from the horns to the base of
the t a i l ............................... 8
Inches.
11
Height at the shoulder................
at the c rupper..................
Feet. Inches.
. . 5 9#
of the head............................ 1 H r Length of the fore legs .................. ■ S 7i
HI SH PS1 . 3 9
of the horn . . . 1 6
Distance between the eyes and the
horns................................... 0
of the dewlap at its base . . . 1 8