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on a brown ground, that are disposed along the 

 animal's body, as if it were covered with harness. 

 Like the former it is a native of Africa. 



The African Wild Goat of Grimmius is the 

 fourth. It is of a dark ash colour j and in the 

 middle of the head is a hairy tuft, standing up- 

 right: on both sides, between the eyes and the 

 nose, there are very deep cavities, greater than 

 those of the other kinds, which contain a yellow 

 oily liquor, which coagulates into a black sub- 

 stance that has a smell between musk and civet. 

 This being taken away, the liquor again runs out, 

 and coagulates as before. These cavities have no 

 communication with the eyes, and consequently 

 this oozing substance can have nothing of the 

 nature of tears. 



[To these may be added the Ckevrotin, or Pig* 

 my Antelope. This beautiful species appears to 

 have been frequently confounded with the Pigmy 

 Musk, which it resembles in size, as well as in 

 colour and manners. It is a native of the hottest 

 parts of Africa, and being completely formed like 

 a stag in miniature, it has been sometimes called 

 the Little Guinea Deer. It is easily tamed, but 

 of so tender a nature as not to admit of being 

 brought alive into Europe. So remarkable are 

 its powers of activity in its native regions, that it 

 is said to be able to leap over a wall of twelve 

 feet in height. Its colour is a bright bay, paler 

 beneath, and on the insides of the limbs ; its 

 height not more than eight inches, and about 

 twelve from the point of the nose to the insertion 

 of the tail. The horns are straight, short, strong, 



