of America allied to the Genus Ant Hope. \] 



I possess a copy of a drawing obtained from an American 



gentleman, who stated it to have been taken from an animal shot 

 near the sources of the Red River. Jt> form is light and Ren- 

 der; the nose small and ovine; ears long, narrow, and rounded 

 at the tips ; the tail several inches in length, and carried erect 

 like that of a goat. In the memorandum accompanying the 

 drawing, the size was stated "to equal a large kid ; die horns to 

 be above five inches and a half long, black, slender, and wrinkled 

 at the base, lying straight along the prolongation of the fore- 

 head, diverging and then bending back at a slight angle." The 

 colour resembles that of a roebuck, but is somewhat more rufous : 

 the mouth, a patch on the throat, belly, and inside of the le$rs 

 and underpart of the tail, white ; the eves dark and lull. 



This description will hardly admit the supposition of the ani- 

 mal's being a modification of the domestic goal run wild. It 

 agrees with the Ovis Puclii of Molina : but the figure in Seba, 

 and still more his description, coincide. lie says, in the expla- 

 nation of Tab. xlii. no. 4 : " Cervus Macatl chichiltic seu Tem- 

 mamacame dictus. Horum ingens numerus per alia montium 

 Novae Hispaniae divagatur, qui gramine, foliis, herbisque victi- 

 tantes, cursu saltuque velocissimi sunt. Europaeos cervos habitu 

 referunt, sed instar hinnulorum valde parvi. Cornua tornata, 

 recurvatum in acumen convergunt, quae singulis annis, nova 

 spira aucta, eetatem animalis produnt. Cornuum color eora- 

 cinus. Oculi auresque magni et agiles. Dentes pnegrandes et 

 lati. Cauda pilis longis obsita ; brevioribus et dilute spadiceis 

 universum corpus vestitur." Referring to ITernandes, we find 

 a similar animal figured, but with very heavy proportions. Hi* 

 specimen is perhaps a variety ; for the " brevissimis cornibus 

 acutissimisque, coloris fulvi, fusci et inferne albi" differs from the 

 above, but resembles in the colour of the belly the figure in my 

 collection. See Hernandes, p. 325. 



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