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Ji. gazella, L.; Ant. leucoryx, Licht., Acad. Berl. 1824, pi. i. 

 (The Algazel.) Horns long, slender, and slightly curved into an 

 arc of a circle? hair whitish, variously tinged with a fawn or 

 reddish colour. Found in north Africa, from Nubia to Sene- 

 gal. It is often sculptured on the monuments of Egypt and 

 Nubia; and M. Lichtenstein thinks it is the true Oryx of the 

 ancients. (l) 



g. Horns annulated with a simple curve, the points directed backwards. 



Jl. leucopheea, Gm.; improperly called TseiVan, Buflf. Supp. 

 VI, pi. XX. (The Blue Antelope.) A little larger than the 

 Stag, of a bluish ash colour ; large horns in both sexes, uni- 

 formly curved, and with upwards of twenty annuli. 



A. egui}ia, GeoW. (The Equine Antelope. )(2) As large as a 

 horse J of a reddish grey; brown head; a white spot before 

 each eye; a mane on the neck; large horns, Sec. 



J. simatrensis, Shaw ; Camhing-Outang or Goat of the 

 Woods o^ the Malays; Fr. Cuv. Mammif.; and Marsden, Su- 

 mat. 2d Ed. pi. x. (The Antelope of Sumatra.) Size of a large 

 goat; black; a white mane on the neck and withers; the 

 horns pointed and small. (3) 



h. Horns encircled ivith a spiral ridge. 



Ji. oreas, Pall.; JElk of the Cape of the Hollanders; impro- 

 perly called Coudous by Buff. Supp. VI, pi. xii. (The Canna 

 or Impooko.) As large as the largest horse ; large, conical, 

 straight horns, surrounded by a spiral ridge ; hair greyish ; a 



from a drawing made in Persia in 1717, appears to be a mere variety of the Oryx, 

 or perhaps of an Alg-azel viewed in front. 



(1) The English speak of an Antelope with almost straight horns, stiff hairs 

 woolly at their base, which sometimes loses one of its horns, from the mountains 

 of Thibet, which was pointed out to them as corresponding' with the Unicorn, 

 which is one of the supporters of their coat of arms. It is called Chiru. M. Ham. 

 Smith thinks it may be the Kemas of ^lian, I, xiv, c. 14. 



(2) We have definitively ascertained that it is the Equine Antelope which is 

 now called the Koba in Senegal. The A. redunca or Nagor of Buff, is there 

 called the Mihill. 



(3) Add the A. goral, Hardvv. Lin. Trans. XIV, pi. xiv, and in the Mammif. F. 

 Cuv. under the name of Bouquetin de Nepaul; the A. sylvicultrix. There should, 

 also, probably, be added the American woolly species, with long hair and very 

 small horns, {Jl. lanigera, Smith) Lin. Trans. XIII, pi. iv, and perhaps the 

 one Seba represents, I, pi. xlii, x, iii, and which M. Ham. Smith calls A. mazama. 

 There is nothing, however, to prove that the Mazames of Hernandez are not the 

 Stags and Roebucks of America, as is observed by that author, who compares them 

 to the Stags and Roebucks of Spain. 



