of America allied to the Genus Antilopc. :):) 



part of America. It is perhaps proper to observe that the ( < r- 

 vus pygargus of Pallas, as figured in Schreber's plates, bear> a 

 strong resemblance in many particulars to the first-described 

 species. I am ignorant whether Professor Pallas had opportu- 

 nities to examine this species of deer with his usual accuracy , 



It appears that the early writers who noticed the natural his- 

 tory of the new hemisphere were acquainted with one, and pro- 

 bably the Palmated species of these animals. 1 had an oppor- 

 tunity of comparing the figure of the Mazame in ilernaudrv 

 with the stuffed specimen at Philadelphia; and though the i u- 

 graving is clumsily executed, there can be no doubt that it was 

 done from one of these animals, and the description distinctly 

 points out the most prominent characters. " Ma/ames," it u 

 observed, " caprarum mediocrium, paulove majori, constant 

 magnitudine ; pilo teguntur cano et qui facile avellatur, fulvo- 



que ; sed lateribus et ventre candentibus Cornua gestant 



juxta exortum lata,ac inpaucos parvosque teretes ac praacutos 

 ramos divisa et sub eis oculos." Recchus justly viewed this and 

 another species which I shall presently notice, as Antelopes., or, 

 in the language of his time, as Capreae. lie says, " Hos (Te- 

 lethcalmacame et Temamacame) ego potius computaverim in 

 Capreos quam inter Cervos*." 



Antilope Mazama. 

 Antelope of Honduras ? Anderson's Hist, of Honduras, 8vo. 

 Mazame seu Cervus cornutus. Seba, tab. xlii. fig. 3. 



Count de Buffon, in his article Des Mazames*, assumes that 

 there were neither musks, antelopes, nor goats, nor any analo- 

 gous 



* Nard. Ant. Recchus apud Hernandesium, lib. ix. cap. xiv. p. 324 et 325. figure 

 ad ipsas paginas. 



t The word Mazame or Macame is derived from the Mexican Macatl, which 1 

 apprehend Baron Humboldt has affixed without sufficient reflection to the Virginian 



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