of America allied to ike Genus Ant Hope. .,."; 



rials for making memoranda, I was obliged to defer it ; and m\ 

 hungry companions soon disposed of it. I wrote to (lie lata 

 Dr. Brown* upon the subject, and lie consulted Dr. Dancer of 

 Jamaica, who pointed out the figure in Seba ; but as there 

 was no copy of this work within my reach, I was obliged t<> 

 defer my inquiries until my return to Europe. The figure \\i 

 Seba is incorrect in expression; but when compared with his 

 description to my own memorandum, the identity appears to 

 me fully established. He observes, " Mazame seu Cervus cor- 

 nutus. Haec species omnino ditl'ert ab ilia quam Guinea pro- 

 fert. Capite et collo, crassis curtisque est, et bina gcrit tornata 

 quasi cornicula, in acutum recurvumque apicein ConveTgentia, 

 retrorsum reclinata. Auricula grandes, flaccid® ; at oculi \e- 

 nusti. Cauda crassa, obtusa. Pilus totius corporis subrufus 

 est, paulo tamen dilutior, qui caput et ventrem tegit. Femora 

 cum pedibus admodum habiliaV Button, who confounds his 

 Cariacou with the Mazames, did not observe that the Cariacou 

 or female of the Bajeu deer of Guiana has a small moist muz/Ie 

 like the rest of the deer kind ; while the Mazames or antelopes 

 of the same country have the nose of a sheep ; at least as far 

 as they have come under my observation. In the History of 

 Honduras by Mr. Anderson, the antelope is noticed ; but (I 

 quote from memory) he represents it as perfectly similar to 

 A . Dorcas. The specimen which I saw, appeared however to 

 bear a greater resemblance to the figure of the Chinese ante- 

 lope about the head, or even to A. Saiga, than to the Dorcas: 



* Surgeon of the Royal Artillery at Port Royal, and known as a botanist. 



t As I have not drawn the figure from the animal, but rather from recollection and 

 the sight of Seba's, I refer to that author for it. His collection was purchased by the 

 Prince of Orange, and passed along with it into the Museum of Paris. It is to be 

 hoped, that, should the specimen still exist, a better figure will be published there. I 

 cannot help observing, that the horns of this animal have a singular resemblance to those 

 of the A. lanigera and the A. Sumatremis. 



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