98 MAMMALIA. 
the male and its skull and horns under the name of A. adenota, 
which well agrees with this species, and has the peculiar distri- 
bution of its hair; hence its name: but he says, it has ‘a long 
open suborbital slit, and small black brushes on the knees ;? but 
this I suspect must be a mistake, as he himself observes that no 
lacrymal cavity was found in the skull. He might have mistaken 
the tuft of hair for the gland at the distance at which he saw the 
specimens. He also (G. A. K. iv. 221) described a specimen 
which was in Exeter Change, which he regarded as the Gambian 
Antelope of Pennant, and calls A. forfex. His characters agree 
in most particulars with this species, but he says it had ‘a long 
lacrymal sinus, and had small brushes on the knees.’ If there 
was not some mistake in transcribing these descriptions, both 
these animals should be Gazellas, but I have never seen any 
which agreed with them. 
“The young male in the British Museum shows the develop- 
ment of the horns of these animals. The upper rings of the 
growing horn fall off im large thick flakes as the horn increases 
im size beneath: this explains how the extent of the smooth ta- 
pering part of the horns increases in length as the horn grows, 
and how the number of rings are found to be nearly the same in 
the various ages, and different individuals of the various species. 
Mr. Whitfield informs me that the scrotum is rarely developed 
or dependent externally in different kinds of Antelopes before 
they have completed their first year.” 
The Antilope (Antilope) forfex, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. iv. 
221, v. 827; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 627 ; which has been compared 
with this species, is perhaps a young Gazella. 
** Horns elongate, recurved at the tip. Tail slender, tufted at 
: the end. 
2. ADENOTA LECHEE. The LECHEE. 
Pale brown. Orbit and lower part of body whitish. Front of 
legs dark brown. Horns elongated, strongly nodose in front. 
Withers with a small roundish whorl of hair. 
Lechee, Oswell, Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc. xx. 150, 1850. 
Eleotragus, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848. 
Kobus Lechée, Knowsley Menag. 23, 1849. ~ 
Adenota Lechée, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 130. 
Hab. South Africa; banks of river Zouga, lat. 22° S. 
Amale. S. Africa; banks of the river Zouga, lat. 21°. Pre- 
sented by Capt. Frank Vardon, Madras Army. 
This animal is nearly as large as the Water Buck. The horns 
