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di-ftingulfhable as in the gazelle. A very remarkable double flexure 

 diftinguifhcs them : at the root, a tuft of very long hair. The ante- 

 lope is brown on the back, and white under the belly; but thefe 

 colours arc not feparated by the black ftreak which belongs to the 

 gazelle kinds. The eleventh variety M. BufFon calls the Lid.me, which, 

 has very long horns. The twelfth and laft, he calls the Indian Ante- 

 lope, whofe horns are very fmall. 



To thefe may be added three or four varieties, which equally re- 

 femble both the goat and the gazelle. Firft, the Bubalus, that feems 

 allied to the cow, the goat, and the deer : like the ftag in fize and 

 figure, particularly its legs ; but has permanent horns, like the goat ; 

 and refembling thofe of the gazelles j while the make of its head is 

 exadly like the cow in the length of its muzzle, and in the difpofition 

 of the bones of its fcull. Has a narrow, long head j eyes placed 

 very high ; forehead fhort and narrow ; horns about a foot long, blacky 

 thick, annulated ; fhouldcrs very high, a kind of bunch on them, ter- 

 minating at the neck j tail about a foot long, and tufted. The hair 

 of this animal remarkable, being thicker at the middle than at the 

 root J the only inftance, except the elk. Common in Barbary. Seems 

 with moft propriety reckoned among the antelopes. 



The fccond anomalous animal, M. BufFon calls the Condoma; fup- 

 pofed equal in fize to the largeft ftag, with hollow horns, and va- 

 ried flexures above three feet long j at their extremities, two feet 

 afunder. Along the back runs a white lift, another of the fame colour 

 crofles this, at the bottom of the neck, which it furrounds : two more 

 run round the body, one behind the fore-legs, the other parallel to 

 it before the hinder. The general colour of the body greyifli ; the 

 belly white : has a long grey beard j legs long, but well proportioned : 

 native of Africa. 



A third is the Guib : refembles the gazelles, except the colour of 

 the belly, which is white in them, but in this of a deep brown. Its 

 horns alfo are fmooth and poliflied ; is remarkable for white lifts, oa 

 a brown ground, difpofed along the animal's body, as if it were co- 

 vered with harnefs : is native of Africa. 



The African wild goat is a fourth : of a dark afh colour : in the middle 

 of the head a hairy tuft, ftanding upright; on both fides, between the 

 eyes and the nofe, are very deep cavities, which contain a yellow oily 

 liquor, (coagulating into a black fubftance, with a fmell betvrren muli 

 and civet) : if. taken away, again runs out. 



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