of America allied to the Genus Antilope. :)]) 



which was much more hair}', but said to have been without 

 horns : the head and feet were wanting when I saw it. 



As the specimen preserved in the Museum of this Society is 

 the only one (at least as far as I have been able to discover) 

 existing in a stuffed form in any museum, and as Dr. Blain- 

 ville has merely noticed it, I presume that the figure, with a 

 more detailed account of an animal extremelv interest in g in 

 several points of view, will prove not unacceptable to those at 

 least who have no opportunity of examining the original. 



The specimen being inclosed in a glass case, I am not enabled 

 to give the dimensions. In bulk it exceeds the largest sheep : 

 the nostrils, ridge of the nose and position of the eyes, resemble 

 a ram's : the ears are rather long and pointed, filled inside with 

 long hair: the neck appears short, the body long, the tail 

 stumpy, the legs short, and the whole structure of the animal 

 exceedingly robust. The colour is wholly white : the bulk of 

 the body is considerably increased by a thick coat of long straight 

 hair, of a yellowish tinge, but softer to the touch than that of a 

 goat : this hair is particularly abundant under the throat, about 

 the shoulders, the neck, back and tail : it covers the upper 

 arms and hocks of the animal : below lies a close downy wool of 

 a clear white colour, and in young animals feeling like unspun 

 cotton : on the face and legs the hair is short and close, similar 

 to that of sheep : the eye-lashes are white. The horns, which are 

 not placed on the head in the specimen, are about five inches 

 long : above an inch in diameter at the base, bending slightly 

 back, having two or three annuli, and terminating in an obtuse 

 point : the females have probably none. The horns at Phila- 

 delphia are not above three inches long, the base forming a kind 

 of pedestal half an inch high, and the points subarcuate and 

 sharp : they are black. The legs exceed in thickness those of 

 a large calf : the fetlocks are short and perpendicular, and the 



hoofs 



