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PYGMY ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Pygmaea. A. cornibus breribus contcxis bast rugosu. 



Ijn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. igi. 

 Bay Antelope, with strait short convex horns, wrinkled at the 



base. 



Cervus juvencus perpusillus. Seb. Mus. i. p. 70. t. 43. f. 3. 

 Le Chevrotain de Guine6. Bujf. 12. p. 315. pi. 43. f- 2. (the 



horns.) 

 Royal Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i.p.82. 



THIS beautiful and diminutive species appears 

 to have been frequently confounded with the J\It>s- 

 c/iuft pygimeus, or Pygmy Musk, which it resem- 

 bles in size as well as in colour and manners. It is 

 a native of the hottest parts of Africa, and is easily 

 tamed, but is of so tender a nature as not to ad- 

 mit of being brought in a living state into Europe. 

 So remarkable are its powers of activity in its na- 

 tive regions, that it is said to be able to leap over 

 a wall of twelve feet high. Its colour is a bright 

 bay, paler beneath, and on the insides of the 

 limbs ; and its height not more than nine inches. 

 The horns are strait, short, strong, sharp-pointed, 

 smooth, and perfectly black. The legs are scarcely 

 thicker than a quill, and have been used for simi- 

 lar purposes with those of the Moschus Pygmasus, 

 The female is said to be hornless. 





