320 OUREBI. 



black hairs : the horns are extremely stout, strait, 

 sharp-pointed, and marked with two very thick 

 prominent wreaths or spires * : they are sometimes 

 above two feet in length, and are of a blackish 

 colour. The Oreas is said to be an animal of 

 great strength, and it has been thought not im- 

 practicable to train it to agricultural purposes, in 

 the same manner as the horse or ox. It is said 

 sometimes to grow extremely fat, so as to be easily 

 run down. The flesh is reckoned extremely good ; 

 and the skin is very strong and serviceable for the 

 purpose of leather. The female is said to be horned 

 like the male. 



OUREBI. 



Antilope Ourebi. A. fusco-ferruginea, pectore abdomine dunibus- 



qu.e albis, cornibus rectis. 

 Ferruginous-brown Antelope, with the breast, belly, hind part 



of the thighs, and insides of the limbs, white, and small strait 



horns. 



Ourebi. AUam. Suppl. Buff. 5. p. 33. pi. 12. 

 Ourebi Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i . p. 79. 



THIS, which seems much allied to the Ritbock 

 or A. arundinacea, is thus described by Mr. Pen- 

 nant, from Mr. Allamand's Supplement to the 

 Count de Buffon's History of Quadrupeds : 



* These are scarcely expressed with sufficient strength and full- 

 ness in the annexed plate. 



