P la te 5 0) Male
BUBALUS CAAMA.—O g il b y .
M ammalia. S P la t e XXX.— M a l e .
B. capite, cervice, corporeque subcinnamomeis j fronte, facie, vertice, macula ad basin auris, lined cervicali
extremitatibusque extern^ supra genu brunneo-rubris griseo nitentibus; oculis pallid^ rubro-aurantiis.
Longitudo & naso ad basin caudse 6 ped. 11 unc. ; caudse 1 ped. 4^ unc.
Altitudo ad interscapulium 3 ped. lOf unc.; ad prynam 3 ped. 6-% unc.
H artbeest, Sparrman, Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, vol. ii. p. 199.
Antilope CaamA, Schreb, Goldfuss, pp. 11. 74.; tab. 277
Antilope Bubalis, Pallas, Erxleb. GrneL Bodd.
TT a rtebeest of the Cape Colonists.—K ama of the Bechuanna.
CoLO»Rl#-The colour of the head, neck, and body intermediate between
light brownish orange and yellowish brown ; the back, the sides of the neck
superiorly, the outer surfaces of the shoulder and the anterior edge of each
haunch darkest, being nearly of a cinnamon-colour. The belly and the
inner surface of the limbs towards the body rusty white. The forehead and
chaffron, from a little below the eyes to the nostrils, are brownish red, and
these two marks are separated from each other by a transverse band, about
three inches in depth, of the same colour as the body. From the forehead
the brownish red colour is continued between the horns, behind which it
spreads out and forms the tint of the crown of the head. From each side of
the dark colour of the crown, a broad stripe of the same hue proceeds downwards
and forwards, and forms an edging to the base of each ear interiorly,
and anteriorly ; while another stripe of a narrower character and fainter hue
proceeds along the back of the neck, and terminates either at the shoulder or
at the croup. The same colour occurs also upon all the extremities,
most abundantly on their outer surfaces, above the knees and houghs. At
and for some inches above the joints, it extends almost completely round the
limbs, but higher than that it is confined to the outer surfaces, and even does
not occupy the whole of these, as a part of the thighs anteriorly and of the
fore legs posteriorly, are of the same colour as the body; on both the anterior
and posterior extremities, it terminates a little above the line of the belly ; on.