172 MAMMALIA, 



A. saiga, Pall.; the Coins of Strabo; Schreb. CCLXXVI. (The 

 Saiga). Wliich inhabits the heaths of the south of Poland and 

 Russia, has horns similar to the Gazelle, but yellowish and transpa- 

 rent. It is as large as the Deer, fawn coloured in summer, and of a 

 whitish grey in winter ; its cartilaginous, thick and vaulted muzzle, 

 with very expanded nostrils, compels it to retrograde in feeding. 

 The herd sometimes consists of more than ten thousand individuals. 



A. dama, Pall., Acad, of Berl. 1824, pi. iii. and iv. (The Nan- 

 guer). Size of the C. dama ; white ; the forehead, neck and part 

 of the back red; horns small and slender. From Nubia and 

 Senegal*. 



b. Horns annulated, and with a triple curve. 



A. cervicapra. Pall., BufF. Supp. VI. xviii and xix. (The An- 

 telope of India). Is also very like the Gazelle, but its horns have 

 a triple flexure. They are used in India as weapons, formed by 

 uniting them pair to pair, with the points opposed. They are de- 

 ficient in the female. 



A. addax, Lichtenstf. Acad. Berl. 1824, pi. xi, and Ruppel. 

 pi. vii. (The Antelope of Nubia). Also three curves in its horns, 

 which are longer and more slender than those of the preceding; its 

 body is whitish, tinged with grey on the back, and has a large brown 

 spot on the forehead. 



c. Horns annulated, with a double curve, butbending in an opposite direction 

 to those of the preceding ones, the points directed bachvards. — The 

 Damalis of Smith, in part. 



A. bubalis, L. ; Bubalis of the antients; Bull'. Supp. VI. xiv: 

 vulg. the Barbary C'oiv. (The Bubalis, of the antients). More 

 heavily formed than the others; the head long and thick; as large 

 as the Stag; fawn coloured, except at the end of the tail which is 

 terminated with a black tuft. Common in Barbary. 



A. caama, Cuv. ; vulg. Cape Stag of the Dutch ; Buff. Supp. 

 VI. pi. XV. (The Caama). Similar to the preceding, but the curves 

 of (he horns more angular ; the circumference of their base, a band 

 on the bottom of the forehead, a line on the neck, a longitudinal 

 stripe on each leg, and tlic tip of tlie fail black. Common at the 

 Cape. 



* The only ■ specimen known to BufFon (toni. XII. pi. xxxiv) was a young one 

 with horns curved simply forwards, which induced him to believe it was the Dama of 

 Pliny. 



f M. Lichtenstein gave it this name, under the idea that it is the same as the 

 Addax or Strepsiceros of Pliny. It is seen on several of the antient monuments of 

 Egypt. 



To this subdivision also belong the Kevil gris, F. Cuv. Mammif. — The Purple 

 Antelope or Bonte-Bock of the Hollanders (A pygarga), Schreb. CCLXXIII. — The 

 Black footed Antelope or Pallah, Sam. Daniels, Afric. Seen. pi. ix (A melampus, Lich.) ; 

 Schr. 274. — The Coha (A. senegaleiisis), of which we have nothing but the horns. 

 Buff. XII. pi. xxxii, 2, unless it be the same as the Pallah. — The A. suturosa. — The 

 A. myiilopes, H. Smith, and perhaps the Koh of Buff, which is probably the A.aden- 

 ola, Ham. Smith. 



