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part of tlie clieeks, the lips and beneath tlie chia are of tlie šame 

 colour, but the whole throat or under surface of the neck is pale 

 reddish brown, likę the back and sides. The tail is covered above 

 with short reddish hair likę that of the body, but it is perfectly naked 

 beneath, and in form and length resembles the tail of some species 

 of Deer (Cervus). The nose is hairy likę that of a Goat; the animal 

 is furnished with lachrymal sinuses of considerable size, opening by 

 very obvious apertures of a circular form ; it has inguinal pores and 

 two teats, as in the common A?itelope (A. Cervicapra) ; large spurious 

 hoofs, and no appearance of scopce or knee-brushes either on the 

 anterior or posterior extremities. These characters will not permit 

 it to be associated w'ith any kno-mi group of Ruminants. That it is 

 not merely a Deer ■vvhich has cast its horns, is proved by the absence 

 of the pedestals which support these organs in the solid-horned Ru- 

 minants, as well as by the hairy lips, two teats and inguinal pores ; 

 neither can it be a Sheep or a Goat, as is evinced by the lachrj'mal 

 sinuses, inguinal pores, and the length and form of the tail, which, 

 in the wild species of these genera, is nearly tuberculous. The sup- 

 position of its being the female of A. Furcifer is disproved by the sex 

 of the specimen ; in other respects, the existence of large spurious 

 hoofs shows plainly enough that it has no afiinity to that animal. 

 There is but one other supposition: may it not be a species of An- 

 telope allied to the typical group of that genus? and may not the 

 abortive horns of the present specimen be the result of some acci- 

 dent? This may certainly be the case ; the other characters of the 

 specimen agree with those of tlie common Indian Antelope, and if the 

 animal should eventually prove to belong to that genus, it may bear 

 the specific name oi A. Jxalus, which the classical scholar ■vvill re- 

 cognise as the name of an undetennined species of Raminant men- 

 tioned in the Iliad. 



" 2. Antilope Euryceriis. Of this magnificent andhitherto unde- 

 scribed species, tvo pairs of horns, one attached to the skull, the 

 other to the integuments of the head, have long existed in the So- 

 ciet^^'s collection. Tlieir origin is unkno\vn, but 1 have reason to 

 ' believe that they come from Western Afi-ica. Their length in a 

 straight line is 2 feet lį inch ; on the curve, 2 feet 7į inches ; 

 their circumference at the base is 10 inches ; their distance at base 

 1 inch, and at the points 1 1 inches. In form they bear some re- 

 semblanee to those of A. Strepsiceros.heing ■wrinkled as in that spe- 

 cies, and having a jjrominent ridge on their posterior face ; but they 

 form only one spirai twist instead of two, and their direction through- 

 out lies in the plane of the fo'rehead, whilst in the Koodoo these two 

 planes form an angle of about 100°. The characters of the skull are 

 likewise similar to those of the Koodoo, but it is broader and larger 

 than in that animal. The points of the horns are of an ivory colour. 

 The animal has a large muzzle, but is without lachrymal sinuses ; it 

 has a white band across the face, immediately under the eyes, and two 

 \vhite spots on each cheek. AU these characters are distinctive of 

 the natūrai group which includes the Koodoo, the present species, 

 the Boskbok, the Guib, and the beautiful species mentioned by Mr. 



