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Bennett (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1833, p. 1.) which is & real Antelope, and 

 \vhich I hope sliortly to have an opportunity of describing in detail 

 under the name oi A. Doria, as a friend, who has connexions \vith the 

 West Coast of Africa, has kindly undertaken to procure me skins. 



" 3. Antilope Philantomba. Twofemalesof this minute specieslived 

 for some time in the Society's Gardens : they were brought from 

 Sierra Leone and presented by Mr. M'^Cormick. Mr. Rendall, who 

 sa\v them ■with me at the Gardens, assured me that they were the 

 Philantoinba of the Sierra Leone negroes. The larger and older spe- 

 cimen has small horns about 1|^ inch long, bent slightly forwards 

 and surrounded at the base \vith 5 or 6 small rings : the species is 

 distinguished from the pygmy Antelope of the Cape by its longer tail 

 and ears, the latter clothed \vith white hair on the inside, by the 

 darker mouse-colour of the body and the uniform hue of the legs, 

 Avhich instead of being sandy red as in the Cape species, are of the 

 šame colour as the body, only rather paler. But for the circurastance 

 of the female possessing horns, I should have been inclined to iden- 

 tify this animal with the A. Maxioellii of Col. Smith. 



" 4, Antilope Sumatrensis. This species and A. Thar were exhibit- 

 ed together for the purpose of pointing out the similarity of their 

 zoological characters, and correcting a mistake into which RIessrs. F. 

 Cuvier, Desmarest, and Col. Smith have fallen %vith regard to the 

 former species. According to these zoologists the Cambing Outan 

 {A. Sumatrensis) possesses both the lachrymal sinus and the longi- 

 tudinal gland on the maxillary bone, ■vvhich distinguishes the Duy- 

 kerbok {A . Mergens) and some other Antelopes : in reality the lachry- 

 mal sinus is sufficientlj'' distinct, but there is not the slightest trace 

 of any maxillary gland. The šame zoologists represent the female 

 Cambing as being Avithout horns and having only two teats : the spe- 

 cimen exhibited, a young female, had tolerably large homs and di- 

 stinctly showed four teats, thus agreeing in all respects \vith the adult 

 female Thar with ■vvhich it ^vas compai'ed. 



"5. Antilope pabnata. Colonel Smith has described the homs of 

 this species from an imperfect pair preserved in the Museum of the 

 College of Surgeons, but \vas undecided \vhether it should be con- 

 sidered as a distinct species or only a variety of the Prongbaick (A. 

 Furcifer). The present perfect pair, with the skin of the head at- 

 tached, goes far to prove the specific distinction, but the habitat is 

 widely difFerent from that assigned by Colonel Smith. The speci- 

 men came from Mexico, where Dr. Coulter informs me it is sufficient- 

 Ly common. The horns are twice or thrice as large again as those of 

 A. Furcifer, and instead of preserving a tolerable degree of parallelism, 

 as in that species, spread widely, and are much hooked at the points. 

 The face also is of a very dark brown colour, whilst in A. Furnfer it 

 is of the šame light fawn as the upper parts of the body." 



Mr. Gray exhibited a specimen of Argonaut M'ith an Ocytho'ė 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, and stated that as the subject had 

 been brought forward at the lašt meeting, he \vas induced to remark 

 that every time he considered it, and corapared it under its various 



