Catalogue number : 18243 ( old number: Cat. Jentink 1892 No.a )
Sex: male
Locality: Cape Colony
Date of acquisition: 1830-3
Remarks on acquisition: specimen is probably the second or third of the three received by the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie between 1827 and 1833 from their agent at Cape Town, Dr H. B. van Horstok
History of mount: original mount of straw. Specimen exhibited until 1913, causing slight fading on the left side
Measurments:
head – body 2,000 m
tail 0,430 m
ear, left 0,180 m
ear, right 0,165 m
hindfoot 0,470 m
shoulder height 1,100 m
State of preservation: very good
Further material of the same individual: complete skeleton in collection
Remarks: not exhibited; housed in total darkness
References: Renshaw (1904); Ridgeway (1909); Antonius (1931); Van Bruggen (1959)
