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THE HARNESSED ANTELOPE. 



Tragelaphus scr\ptus> SMITH. 

 PLATE I. 



Antilope scripta. Pallas Harnessed Antelope. Pennant^ 

 &c Tragelaphus scriptus, Major Smith. Guib, femeile, 

 Fred. Cuv. His 1. Nat. des Mammiferes. 



THIS is an animal of very great beauty, from the 

 bright fulvous-bay which is the prevailing colour of 

 the body, being marked or divided by longitudinal 

 and transverse lines of white, which divide the ground 

 colour into patches almost like those of the Cameleo- 

 pard. The male is nearly of the size of the fallow 

 deer, the horns black, and about seven inches long. 

 For the accompanying representation, we have used 

 the figure of Frederic Cuvier, which is a female, and 

 regret that we have not been able to procure the ob- 

 servations of Liechtenstein in the Berlin Magazine. 

 It appears to have been first noticed by Mr Adan- 

 son in Senegal, in the county of Podor, about sixty 

 leagues inland from the sea. Lichtenstein says it in- 

 habits Caffraria, but Mr Burchell did not meet with 

 it .; and, as far as we yet know, it is either very rare, 

 or inhabits only those districts in the interior which 



