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species, enables it to climb rocks, and it prefers mountainons dis- 

 tricts.* 



A. gnzella, L. ; Ant. leueoryx, Licht., Acad. Berl. 1824, pi. i. 

 (The Algazel). Horns long, slender, and slightly curved into an 

 arc of a circle ; hair whitish, variously tinged with a fawn or reddish 

 colour. Found in North Africa, from Nubia to Senegal. It is 

 often sculptured on the monuments of Egypt and Nubia; and M. 

 Lichtenstein thinks it is the true Oryx of the antients.f 



</. Horns annulated with a simple curve, the points directed backwards. 



A. leucophcea, Gm. ; improperly called Tseiran, Buff. Supp. VI. 

 pi. XX. (The Blue Antelope). A little larger than the stag, of a 

 bluish ash-colour ; large horns in both sexes, uniformly curved, and 

 with upwards of twenty rings. 



A. equina, Geoff. (The Equine Antelope).J As large as a 

 horse; of a reddish-grey; brown head; a white spot before each 

 eye; a mane on the neck; large horns, &c. 



A. sumatrensis, Shaw; Carahimj-Outancj, or Goat of the Woods of 

 the Malays, Fr. Cuv. Mammif. ; and Marsden, Sumat., 2d ed. pi. x. 

 (The Antelope of Sumatra). Size of a large goat; black; a white 

 mane on the neck and withers; the horns pointed and small.§ 



h. Horns encircled with a spiral ridge. 



A. oreas, Pall. ; Elk of the Cape of the Dutch ; improperly called 

 Coudous by Buff. Supp. VI. pi. xii. (The Canna or Impooko). As 

 large as the largest horse; large, conical, straight horns, surrounded 

 by a spiral ride ; hair greyish ; a small mane along the spine ; a kind 

 of dewlap under the neck ; the tail terminated by a tuft. It lives in 

 troops in the mountains north of the Cape.|| 



A. strepciseros, Pall. ; improperly called Condoma by Buff. Supp. 

 IV. pi. xiii, Schreb. 267. (The Codous). Size of a stag; brown- 



* The //. leueoryx, Schr. CCLVI. B. or the White Jntelope of Peiin, taken from a 

 drawing made in Persia in 1717, appears to be a mere variety of the Oryx, or, per- 

 haps, of an Algazel viewed in fi-ont. 



t The English speak of an antelope with almost straight horns, stiff hairs woolly 

 at their base, which sometimes loses one of its horns, from the mountains of Thibet, 

 which was pointed out to them as corresponding with the Unicorn, which is one of 

 the supporters of their coat of arms. It is called Chiru. M. Ham. Smith thinks it 

 may be the Kemas of /Elian, I. xiv, c. 14. 



X We have definitively ascertained that it is the Equine Antelope which is now 

 called the Koha in Senegal. The A. redunca, or Nagor of Buff, is there called the 

 Mibill. 



§ Add the A. goral, Hardw. Lin. Trans. XIV. pi. xiv, and in the Mammif. F. Cuv. 

 under the name of Bouquetin de Nepaul; the A. sylvicullrix. There should, also, 

 probably, be added the American woolly species, mth long hair and very small horns 

 {A. lanigera. Smith), Lin. Trans. XIII. pi. iv, and perhaps the one Seba represents, 

 I. pi. xliii, X, iii, and which M. Ham. Smith calls A. viazama. There is nothing, 

 however, to prove that the Mazames of Hernandez are not the stags and roebucks of 

 America, as is observed by that author, who compares them to the stags and roe- 

 bucks of Spain. 



II Near the f«Hwa should be placed the Gja'6 (.^. «c/-!>/a), Buff. XII. pl.xl. — The 

 Bosch-Bock {A. sylvatica), Buff. Supp. VI. xxv. 



