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telope of India.) Is also very like the Gazelle, but its horns 

 have a triple flexure. They are used in India as weapons, formed 

 by uniting them pair to pair, with the points facing in opposite 

 directions. They are deficient in the female. 



Ji. addax, Lichtenst.(l) Acad. Berl. 1824, pi. xi, and RuppeL 

 pi. vii. (The Antelope of Nubia.) Also three curves in its 

 horns, which are longer and more slender than those of the pre- 

 ceding; it is whitish, tinged with grey on the back, and has a 

 large brown spot on the forehead. 



c. Horns annulated, with a double curve, but winding in an opposite di- 

 rection to those of the preceding ones, the points directed backwards. 

 The Damalis of Smith, in part. 



A. bubalis, L. ; Bubalis of the ancients; Buff. Supp. VI, xiv; 

 vulg. the Barbary Cow. (The Bubalis.) More heavily formed 

 than the others ; the head long and thick ; as large as the Stag ; 

 fawn coloured, except at the end of the tail which is terminated 

 with a black tuft. Common in Barbary. 



A. caama, Cuv.; vulg. Cape Stag of the Hollanders; Buff. 

 Supp. VI, pi. XV. (The Caama.) Similar to the preceding, 

 but the curves of the horns more angular; the circumference 

 of their base, a band on the bottom of the forehead, a line on 

 the neck, a longitudinal stripe on each leg, and the tip of the 

 tail black. Common at the Cape. 



d. Small, straight, or but slightly curved horns, less than the head in 



the greater number of species found only on the male. 



Jl. lanata, Desmar. ; Rcebock or Roebuck of the Hollanders of 

 theCape. (The Woolly Antelope.) Somewhat smaller than the 

 C. dama ; hair woolly; grey above, white beneath ; some black 

 on the external face of the limbs, and at the extremity of the 

 lower jaw. 



A. mergens, Blainv. ; Duiker-Bock of the Hollanders. (The 



(1) M. Lichtenstein g'ave it this name, under the idea that it is the same as the 

 Jlddax or Strepsiccros of Pliny. It is seen on several of the ancient monuments of 

 Egypt. 



To this subdivision also belong- the Kevel gris, F. Cuv. Mammif. The Purple 

 Antelope or Bonte- Bock of the Hollanders, {A. pygarga) Schreb. CCLXXllI. The 

 Black-footed Antelope ov Pallali, Sam. Daniels, Afric. Seen. pi. ix {A. melampus, 

 Lich.); Schr. 274. The Coba, {A. senegalensis) of which we have nothing but the 

 horns Buff. XII, pi. xxxii, 2, unless it be the same as the Pallah. The A. suiuro- 

 sa. The A. mytilopes, H. Smith, and perhaps the Kob of Buff, which is probably 

 the A. adenota. Ham. Smith. 

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