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short*, thick at the hase, very slightly annulatcd 

 to a small distance beyond, and are sharp-poir 

 smooth, and black : the limbs are slender ; the tail 

 rather short, blackish above, white below, and is 

 somewhat ilocky or loose-haired ; but what prin- 

 cipally distinguishes this species is an uprjght 

 pointed tuft of strong black hairs rising from the 

 top of the forehead, between the horns, to the 

 height of about two inches and a half: the sinus 

 lachrymalis, as in many other antelopes, is ex- 

 tremely conspicuous. 



The Grimm is found in several parts of Africa, 

 extending, according to Dr. Pallas and Mr. Pen- 

 nant, from Guinea to the Cape of Good Hope; 

 residing principally in places overgrown with 

 brushwood) into \\hich it may retire on the ap- 

 proach of danger. In the Level -Jan Museum is a 

 very beautiful specimen of this animal, M-hich is 

 elegantly figured in the Museum Leverianum, 

 and is introduced into the present work. 



* Dr. Gmdin, in his edition of the Systema Naturae, speaks of 

 the horns as being eighteen inches long; probably mistaking Mr. 

 Pennant's expression, "height 18 inches," by which he means the 

 height of the animal itself. 



v. ii. p. ir. *'.' 



