98 MAMMALIA. 



the male and its skull and horns under the name of A . adenota, 

 which well agrees with this species, and has the peculiar distri- 

 bution of its hair ; hence its name : but he says, it has ( a long 

 open suborbital slit, and small black brushes on the knees ;' but 

 this I suspect must be a mistake, as he himself observes that no 

 lacrymal cavity was found in the skull. He might have mistaken 

 the tuft of hair for the gland at the distance at which he saw the 

 specimens. He also (G. A. K. iv. 221) described a specimen 

 which was in Exeter Change, which he regarded as the Gambian 

 Antelope of Pennant, and calls A. forfex. His characters agree 

 in most particulars with this species, but he says it had ' a long 

 lacrymal sinus, and had small brushes on the knees.' If there 

 was not some mistake in transcribing these descriptions, both 

 these animals should be Gazellas, but I have never seen any 

 which agreed with them. 



" The young male in the British Museum shows the develop- 

 ment of the horns of these animals. The upper rings of the 

 growing horn fall off in large thick flakes as the horn increases 

 in size beneath : this explains how the extent of the smooth ta- 

 pering part of the horns increases in length as the horn grows, 

 and how the number of rings are found to be nearly the same in 

 the various ages, and different individuals of the various species. 

 Mr. Whitfield informs me that the scrotum is rarely developed 

 or dependent externally in different kinds of Antelopes before 

 they have completed their first year." 



The Antilope (Antilope) forfex, H. Smith, Griffith A. K. iv. 

 221, v. 827; Fischer, Syn. Mam. 627 ; which has been compared 

 with this species, is perhaps a young Gazella. 



** Horns elongate, recurved at the tip. Tail slender, tufted at 

 the end. 



2. ADENOTA LECHEE. The LECHEE. 



Pale brown. Orbit and lower part of body whitish. Front of 

 legs dark brown. Horns elongated, strongly nodose in front. 

 Withers with a small roundish whorl of hair. 



Lechee, Qswell, Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc. xx. 150, 1850. 

 Eleotragus, sp., Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1848. 

 Kobus Lechee, Knowsley Menag. 23, 1849. 

 Adenota Lechee, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849, 130. 

 Hab. South Africa ; banks of river Zouga, lat. 22 S. 



A male. S. Africa; banks of the river Zouga, lat. 21. Pre- 

 sented by Capt. Frank Vardon, Madras Army. 



This animal is nearly as large as the Water Buck. The horns 



