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pearance, and it 1s called Koba and Kassimause by the negroes 
at Macarthy’s Island. Its flesh is very strong, unpleasant, and 
scarcely palatable. 
As far as I could judge by my recollection and description, the 
adult specimen at Knowsley, the young male and adult female 
in the British Museum, the male and female at Frankfort, and 
the adult male in the Paris menageries, are the same species. 
Buffon figured (Hist. Nat. 210, 267. xii. t. 32. f. 2) under the 
name of Koda a pair of horns which were in the library of St. 
Victor at Paris. He described them as larger and more curved 
above than those of the Kod, eighteen inches long, and five inches 
in circumference at the base, and he refers them to an animal 
which Adanson says is called Koba in Senegal, and the Great 
Brown Cow by the French colonists. Pallas refers these horns 
to A. Pygargus, and the figures and description agree in many 
particulars with the horns of that species; but they are rather 
longer, and have more rings. Pennant (Syn. Mam. 38) gave 
the name of Senegal Antelope to Buffon’s short account and 
figure, but has added to it the description and the figure of the 
head of a skin which came from Amsterdam, and appears to be 
A. Caama of South Africa. Cuvier (Dict. Sci. Nat. 11. 235) only 
translated Pennant’s name to A. Senegalensis. Erxleben (Syn. 
293) and Zimmerman (Zool. 345) have translated Pennant’s de- 
scription of his skin from Amsterdam of A. Caama, and called it 
A. Koba, referring to Buffon’s description and Daubenton’s figure. 
Fischer, Hamilton Smith and M. Sundevall regard the Koda of 
Buffon the same as the Korrigum of Denham and Clapperton, 
but the horns of that species are considerably longer and much 
thicker at the base than those described by Daubenton, and the 
annulations of the horns are higher and more regular. It should 
be remarked that Buffon describes his horns as having eleven or 
twelve rings, but figures them as having seventeen or eighteen. 
Mr. Ogilby (Penny Cyclopedia and the Proceedings of the Zoolo- 
gical Society) considers Buffon’s Koba to be the Sing-Sing ; 
in the length of the horns, and in the number, disposition and 
form of the rings, his figure more nearly agrees with the horns 
of that species than of that of the A. Pygarga, to which Pallas 
first referred it ; but the horns are represented much more lyrated 
than any horns of the Sing-Sing I have seen; indeed, not one of 
the specimens which have come under my observation have had 
any inclination to assume that form: but as this is the only 
Western-African species which in any way agrees with Buffon’s 
figure, perhaps it is best to adopt Mr. Ogilby’s suggestion. The 
name of Koba or Kob appears to be common to many species. 
Schinz erroneously considers Damalis Senegalensis, Antilope 
adenota and A. forfex (H. Smith) as synonyms of this species. 
