266 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description, manner*, &c. 



The hair of this quadruped is remarkably line- 

 but its large head, high forehead, assinine head 

 and tail, render it more unsightly than the other 

 varieties of the antelope species. Its pace, when 

 hunted, is a sort of heavy gallop; and when it 

 lias got a-head of its pursuers, it is frequently ob- 

 served to turn round and stare them full in the 

 face. 



This animal is the cervine antelope of Mr. 

 Pennant, and is supposed to be the bubalus of 

 the ancients. Its flesh is said to be of a fine 

 grain, and an agreeably high flavour. 



THE GRIMM. 



" THIS animal," says Dr. Herman Grimmius,. 

 is, on the back and neck, of a dark ash colour, 

 with a white belly ; and its height is about a foot 

 and a half. On the top of its head, between the 

 horns, is a tuft of black hair, and between each 

 eye and ihe nostrils is a cavity, filled with Jin 

 oily, viscid, and yellow humour, which has some 

 resemblance to castor and musk, and fills again 

 upon the cavities being emptied. 



In the year 1?()7, M. Vosmaer published n 

 description of this quadruped; from which I 

 have taken the liberty to extract the following 

 account. 



" This was one of the most beautiful animal* 

 I ever saw: it was sent from Guinea, with thir- 



