226 THE BUSH ANTELOPE. 



lengthens to two inches. It inhabits the vicinity of 

 Sierra Leone, and is esteemed for its venison. 



Another animal is closely allied to this, C. platous, 

 Broad-Eared Antelope ; but, for want of materials, 

 Major Smith has provisionally kept them distinct. 

 A more remarkable antelope is what that naturalist 

 describes under the title of C. quadriscopa, or Four 

 Tufted Antelope, from a specimen which was exhi- 

 bited in Exeter Change, and so named from brushes 

 or tufts of a dark coloured hair being on each of the 

 knees. The general colour was of a sepia grey; 

 beneath whitish, the size about that of a roebuck ; 

 it was brought from Bengal. Burchell's Antelope, 

 and the Duiher Buck of the colonists, will also be 

 placed here, and an example of an animal of the same 

 form, but much less size, will be seen in 



