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(Haploceros), the Greek word for "simple," "haploos" being 

 aspirated. No zoological gardens of America or Europe has ever 

 possessed a live specimen, and, so far as my researches went, 

 only three natural history museums in the world possessed stuffed 



SKELETON OF THE ANTELOPE-GOAT (Haplocerus montanus). 

 (In Sir Edmund Loder's Museum.) 



representations, i.e., a very small and very indifferently " taxi- 

 dermed " one in the British Museum,* a slightly better one at 



* Since then Mr. Thomas Bate, of Kelsterton, has presented a good 

 stuffed specimen to our National Museum, and Sir Edmund I.oder, Bart., a 

 skeleton. Both specimens were obtained by these gentlemen in expeditions to 

 localities indicated by me. 



