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pointed, vertical, parallel, slightly annulated for half their length ; 

 fur woolly, grayish-red above, white below ; no lachrymal sinuses. 

 About five feet long Cape of Good Hope. 



A. Lalandia, Desm. Horns erect, slender, shorter than the head, 

 parallel j fur long, grayish-brown on the back, white on the belly. 

 Cape of Good Hope. Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. i. No. 14. pi. 1. 



A. silvicultrix, Schreb. Desm. The Bush Antelope. Horns black, 

 round, short, wrinkled at the base, rugous higher up, and smooth 

 at the tip, slightly bent outwards ; fur shining-brown, with the 

 lumbar and dorsal region covered with long' fawn-coloured hair; 

 lachrymal sinuses ; no tufts on the knees j tail pendulous, tufted. 

 Inhabits Sierra Leone Griff, iv. 258. 



A. quadriscopa, Smith. Horns four inches long, reclining, straight, 

 diverging, pointed, with six or seven small annuli at the base; 

 ears longer than the horns j fur yellowish gray, white beneath ; 

 legs slender, with tufts on the knees and hind-legs. Size of the 

 roebuck. Africa. Griff, Syn. 345. 



A. mergens, Blainville. The Deukerbok. Horns erect, annulated 

 at the base, a half shorter than the head ; fur dun, with the ex- 

 tremity of the feet brown and a line of the same colour on the 

 anterior face of the fore-legs ; a suborbitary furrow. Inhabits 

 Cape of Good Hope. Desm. Mam. 463. 



A. grimmia, Desm. (Moschus grimmia, Lin.) Horns very short, 

 stout, erect ; fur fawn-coloured ; face and line down the back 

 dark ; ears short and broad ; legs gray ; tail black at the point ; a 

 lengthened suborbital slit, but no lachrymal sinus. Two feet 

 and a-half long. Inhabits Guinea. Mam. 464. 



A. ccerula, Smith. Horns very small, black, pointed, with five semi- 

 annuli nearly concealed in the hair of the forehead ; fur slaty 

 purplish-blue, white beneath. Upwards of two feet long. Caff- 

 raria Griff. Syn. 348. 



A. scoparia, Desm. Horns small, erect, with five annulations in 

 the first half, points smooth, black ; head and upper parts of the 

 body pale fulvous ; lower parts white ; tail short, blackish ; tufts 

 on the knees. Inhabits Cape of Good Hope. Schreb. t. 261. 



A. pygmcea, Pall. Desm. The Pigmy Antelope. Horns small, 

 about an inch long, black, pointed ; fur bright bay, whiter below ; 

 no tufts on the knees j a small lachrymal opening. Twenty inches 

 long. Inhabits Central Africa. Shaw, ii. pi. 188. 



ttt Horns bent backwards. 



A. Sumatrensis, Desm. Horns six inches long, round, bent back, 

 with ten or twelve wrinkles at base ; fur brown black ; neck and 

 back with long white hairs ; lachrymal sinuses with a small 

 opening. Length 4^ feet. Sumatra. Marsden's Sum. p. 93. 



A. goral, Hardwick. Horns four and a-half inches long, black, 

 subulate, bent back, with five or six annuli at the base. Fur gray- 

 ish-brown, whitish under the throat. Nepaul. Lin. Trans. 



