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The Arabs place likewife among the Becker el Waflj , a 7'/^«'• ^^^'• 

 Species of the Deer-Kind^ which hath the Horns exadly in the 

 Failiion of the Stags, but is in Size only betwixt the Red and • 

 Fallow Deer. Thofe, which I havefeen, were caught in the 

 Mountains near Sk'igata, and appeared to be of the fame mild and 

 tradable Nature with the Behker el IVapj. The Female, hav- 

 ing no Horns, is called in Deriilon, [Fortafs u--^^^»] The Broad 

 Scalp, or ScaWdHead. 



The FifljtUl or Lerid/ee, is the moil timorous Species of the r^^ Finitaii 

 Goat-Kind, plunging Itfelf, when purfued, down Rocks and"''^"^'"^' 

 Precipices. It is of the Bignefs of an Heifer of a Year old ; 

 but hath a rounder turn of Body; with a Tuft of iliagged Hair 

 upon the Knees and Neck ; this near aFoot, the other only about 

 five Inches long. It agreeth in Colour with the Bekker ellVafj - 

 but the Horns are wrinkled and turned back like the Goats; 

 from which likewife they differ in being more than a Foot 

 long, and divided only, upon their ilTuing out of the Forehead, 

 by a fmall Strip of Hair as in the Sheep-Kind. The FiptUl, 

 from It's Size, Shape, and other Circumftances, feems to be 

 ih^Tragelaphus' of the Antients; an Animal, we are to fup-r/^iTragck- 

 pofe, fuch as this is, betwixt a Goat and a Deer. Tliny in-^^"'' 

 deed obferveth that It was peculiar to the Banks of the Thafis ; 

 a Miftake probably of the fame Kind with what imlΉediately 

 follows, that the Stag was not an Animal oi Africa. 



Befides the common Gazell or Antilope , (which is well r>&. Cazeii 

 known in Europe,) this Country likewife produceth another"' ^""'''^^' 

 Species, of the fame Shape and Colour, though of the Bignefs 

 of our Roe-Buck, and with Horns fometimes of two foot long. 

 This the Africans call Lidmee, and may, I prefume, be the ^-^^ Li^mee, 

 Strepftceros^ and Addace of the Antients. Bochart , from<^^'o^"^*«^ 

 the fuppofed Whitenefs of the Buttocks, finds a great Affinity 

 betwixt the Addace \ I have mentioned, and the \s^^n\ D'tfon^ 

 which, in T>eut. 14. 5•. our Tranflation renders the Tygarg, after 

 the Septuagint and Vulgate Verfions. 



I Eadem eft Specie, (cum Ccrvo fc.) barba tantutn & armorum viJlo diftans, qucm 

 Tragelaphon vocant, non alibi, quam juxta Ρ/μ/ϊ» amnem, nafcens. Cervos yi/ricrf prope- 

 modumfolanongignit. Flhu 1. 8. cap.33. 2 Coj««4 erefta, rugarumqueambitu contorta, 

 & in leve faftigium exacuta (ut Lyras diceres) Strepficeroti, quein Addacem /ifrica zppdht, 

 «attira dedtt. Plin. l.n. cap. 27. 3 A cinereo nempe colore, qui Hebvsis fWl Difen di- 

 cicui•. Boch. Hieroz. 1. ?. can. ?. 



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