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THE ZOOLOGIST.

to be infected by this peculiar parasite, but I have never seen a case.

Description and Details of Bull Tsoing.

The general colour of this Bull was of a light red, fading and becoming lighter as the flanks and under surface of the body were approached; here the colour was almost greyish, intermixed here and there with white; the inside of the thighs was of a yellowish grey, where the skin was almost devoid of hair, and here also secretes an unctuous brown substance resembling the wax of the ear.

Skull and Horns.
Fig. 1.—Skull and Horns: Bull Tsoing. Length of left horn, 33½ in. Length of right horn, 31 in. Girth of left horn, 17 in. Girth of right horn, 16 in.

The inside of the fore legs and under parts of the chest were of a greyish white, and the anterior portion of the fore leg from the knee upwards of a reddish black colour; this tint is also slightly marked in the hind legs. There was just a vestige of a dewlap, this being about three inches in its greatest breadth.