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A muzzle, or demimuzzle for the most part ; 

 none in some species; ears large, pointed and 

 moveable ; eyes often very open -, tongue smooth ; 

 body generally slender, like that of the Deer; legs 

 slender; tail short or moderate; sometimes ingui- 

 nal pores or deep cuticular folds in the groin. 



Brushes or tufts of hairs on the wrists of some 

 species. 



Two or four mammae. 



Covering generally sparse, and ornamented with 

 lively colours, agreeably disposed; no beard on the 

 chin. 



They possess a gall-bladder. 



Habit. Peaceable, and altogether herbivorous ; 

 generally uniting in troops ; living for the most 

 part beneath the torrid zone ; some in temperate 

 climates, and others in northern latitudes, on the 

 summits of mountains covered with snow; rapid 

 in their motions like Deer ; bringing forth one or 

 two young at a birth. 



Inhabit Africa, India, Tartary, the Alps of Eu- 

 rope, and Rocky Mountains of America. 



Eleventh Subgenus, (of authors.) 



n^ntilocapra, Ord, Blainville. 



Horns of both sexes moderate, compressed, re- 

 curved posteriorly towards the point, in form of a 

 hook, and furnished with an anterior antler ; no 

 muzzle; no lachrymal depressions ; no tufts on the 

 wrists : general form that of the other Antelopes 



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