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GAMBIAN ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Lerwia. A. cornibus recurvis rvgosis, corpore rufcs- 

 cente, nvcha barbata. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmd. p. 182. 



Rufous Antelope, with the nape of the neck bearded, and re- 

 curved wrinkled horns. 



Kob. Bvjf. 12. p. 210. 267. t. 32. f. I. 



Gambian Antelope. Pennant Quadr. j.p. 104. . 50. 



THIS seems a species not very distinctly under- 

 stood. Mr. Pennant characterises it thus : ' ' Horns 

 thirteen inches long ; five inches and a half round 

 at the hottom ; pretty close at the base and points ; 

 very distant in the middle ; surrounded with eight 

 or nine rings ; smooth at their upper part." Mr. 

 Pennant, in his synonyms annexed, quotes the 

 species slightly mentioned by Buffon under the 

 title of Kob, which he says is about the size of a 

 fallow deer, and has horns not more than a foot 

 in length, with eight or nine rings, and bearing 

 a great resemblance to those of the Gazelle and 

 Kevel ; but that the form of the head is different, 

 the muzzle being longer, and there being no pits 

 under the eyes. The head figured in Mr. Pen- 

 nant's History of Quadrupeds seems greatly to re- 

 semble that of the Senegal Antelope, or supposed 

 variety of the Bubalis. It is said to occur chiefly 

 in the north of Africa, about the rivers Gambia 

 and Senegal. 



