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GUINEA ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Grimmia. A. corntirus conicis coinpressis rcctissimi* 



rugoso-striatis, hinc detritis, fossa suboculari atra. Lin. Syst. 



Nat. Gmcl. p. 191. Pall. Misc. Zool.p. 8. n. 14. Spk. Zool. 



i. p. 15. 12. p. 18. n. 18. 

 Yellowish-bay Antelope, with short strait horns, and black 



bristly tuft on the forehead. 

 Moschus Grimmia. M. capite fasciculo tophoso. Lin, Syst. 



Nat. p. 92. 

 Capra sylvestris Africana. Grimm. Misc. Nat. Cur. dec. a. a. 4. 



p. 13 1./. 13. 

 Guinea Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i. p. 81. 



THIS species is named in memoiy of its first de- 

 scriber, Dr.' Grimmius, to whom we owe an ample 

 and accurate account both of its form and man- 

 ners. 13y Linnaeus it was arranged under the 

 genus Moschus, the specimen described by Dr. 

 Grimmius having been a female, and destitute of 

 horns. 



The Guinea Antelope, or Grimm, is consider- 

 ably smaller than a Roebuck, and is of an ele- 

 gant and lively aspect. Its colour on all parts, 

 except the throat, abdomen, and insides of the 

 thighs, where it is pale cinereous, is a beautiful 

 light yellowish or tawny brown : like most other 

 quadrupeds, however, it differs as to the inten- 

 sity of its colour; and the specimen described 

 by Mr. Vosmaer, at the Hague, had a black stripe 

 on the forehead, and a blackish or dusky cast 011 

 the upper parts of the body. The horns are very 



