19^ MAMMALIA. 



Lion and Panther. The soft expression of its eye furnishes 

 numerous images to the Arabian poets. 



A. corinna, Gm.j Buff. XII, xxvii. (The Corinna.) Only 

 differs in the horns, which are much more slender. It is per- 

 haps a mere variety of sex. 



A. kevella, Gm. ; Buff. XII, cclxxv. (The Kevel.) Also very 

 similar^ but its horns are compressed at the base, and have a 

 greater number of rings. The only mark in which it is even 

 pretended that it differs from the Aim of Kaempfer, or the 

 Tseyrain of the Persians and Turks, (.^. subgutturosa, Gm,,) is 

 a slight swelling under the throat of the latter. 



A. gutlurosa, Pall. ; Deseren of the Mongoles ; Hoang Yang^ 

 or Yellow Goat of the Chinese ; Schreb. CCLXXV. Nearly 

 similar colours, and the same kind of horns as the Gazelle pro- 

 perly so called; but it is nearly as large as the C. dama^ and there 

 is a considerable protuberance in the male produced by the 

 larynx, and a large pouch under the belly. The female has no 

 horns. This species lives in herds, in the barren plains of cen- 

 tral Asia, and avoids both the forest and water. 



A. euchorCj Forsterj the Pouched Gazelle^ Buff. Supp. VI, pi. 

 xxi. (The Springbock.) The south of Africa is filled with 

 herds of this species. It is larger than the Gazelle, but of the 

 same form and colour ; it is distinguished by a fold of the skin 

 of the croup covered with white hairs, which opens and enlarges 

 at every bound the animal makes. 



A. saiga. Pall.; Colus of Strabo ; Schreb. CCLXXVI, (The 

 Saiga.) Which inhabits the heaths of the south of Poland and 

 Russia, has horns similar to the Gazelle, but yellowish and 

 transparent. It is as large as the Deer, fawn coloured in sum- 

 mer, and of a whitish grey in winter ; its cartilaginous, thick 

 and vaulted muzzle, with very expanded nostrils, compels it to 

 retrograde in feeding. The herd sometimes consists of more 

 than ten thousand individuals. 



. dama, Pall., Acad, of Berl. 1824, pi. iii and iv. (The 

 Nanguer.) Size of the C. dama; white ; the forehead, neck and 

 part of the back red; horns small and slender. From Nubia 

 and Senegal. (1) 



b. Horns annulated, and with a triple curve. 

 A. cervicapra, Pall., Buff". Supp. VI, xviii and xix. (The An- 



(1) The only specimen known to Buffon (torn. XII, pi. xxxiv) was a young- one 

 with horns curved simply forwards, which induced him to believe it was the Dama 

 of Pliny. 



