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shoots of trees, which gives their flesh an excel- 

 lent flavour. This is to be understood of those 

 which arc taken in the chace ; for those which 

 an fattened in houses are fur less delicious. The 

 flesh of some species is said to taste of musk, 

 which pah, ips depends on the qualities of the 

 plants they teed upon. 



" This preface (says Mr. Pennant) was thought 

 necc-^aiv. to point out the diileiencc in nature 

 between tin's and the Goat kind, with which most 

 inutic writers have classed the Antelopes: 

 but the Antelope forms an intermediate genus, a 

 link between the Cio;;t and the Deer; agn< 

 with the former in the texture of the horns, uhich 

 ha\e a core in them, and arc never cast ; and with 

 tin latter in elegance of form and swiftness." 



To the above introduction it may be. added, 

 that in detailing the particular history of the An- 

 telopes, very little more can be done than copy- 

 ;he d'-M'riptions already given by Dr. Pallas, 

 Mr. Pennant, Mr. Allamand, &c. I must, how< 

 acknowledge myself not entirely convinced that 

 every animal described in the following enumera- 

 tion is in reality a distinct species. 



