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pearance, and it is called Koba and Kassimause by the negroes 

 at Macarthy's Island. Its flesh is very strong, unpleasant, and 

 scarcely palatable. 



As far as I could judge by my recollection and description, the 

 adult specimen at Knowsley, the young male and adult female 

 in the British Museum, the male and female at Frankfort, and 

 the adult male in the Paris menageries, are the same species. 



Buffon figured (Hist. Nat. 210, 267. xii. t. 32. f. 2) under the 

 name of Koba a pair of horns which were in the library of St. 

 Victor at Paris. He described them as larger and more curved 

 above than those of the Kob, eighteen inches long, and five inches 

 in circumference at the base, and he refers them to an animal 

 which Adanson says is called Koba in Senegal, and the Great 

 Brown Cow by the French colonists. Pallas refers these horns 

 to A. Pygargus, and the figures and description agree in many 

 particulars with the horns of that species ; but they are rather 

 longer, and have more rings. Pennant (Syn. Mam. 38) gave 

 the name of Senegal Antelope to Buifon's short account and 

 figure, but has added to it the description and the figure of the 

 head of a skin which came from Amsterdam, and appears to be 

 A. Caama of South Africa. Cuvier (Diet. Sci. Nat. ii. 235) only 

 translated Pennant's name to A. Senegalensis. Erxleben (Syn. 

 293) and Zimmerman (Zool. 345) have translated Pennant's de- 

 scription of his skin from Amsterdam of A . Caama, and called it 

 A. Koba, referring to Buifon's description and Daubenton's figure. 

 Fischer, Hamilton Smith and M. Sundevall regard the Koba of 

 Buffon the same as the Korrigum of Denham and Clapperton, 

 but the horns of that species are considerably longer and much 

 thicker at the base than those described by Daubenton, and the 

 annulations of the horns are higher and more regular. It should 

 be remarked that Buffon describes his horns as having eleven or 

 twelve rings, but figures them as having seventeen or eighteen. 

 Mr. Ogilby (Penny Cyclopedia and the Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society] considers Buffon's Koba to be the Sing - Sing ; 

 in the length of the horns, and in the number, disposition and 

 form of the rings, his figure more nearly agrees with the horns 

 of that species than of that of the A. Pygarga, to which Pallas 

 first referred it ; but the horns are represented much more lyrated 

 than any horns of the Sing -Sing I have seen ; indeed, not one of 

 the specimens which have come under my observation have had 

 any inclination to assume that form: but as this is the only 

 Western- African species which in any way agrees with Buffon's 

 figure, perhaps it is best to adopt Mr. Ogilby's suggestion. The 

 name of Koba or Kob appears to be common to many species. 

 Schinz erroneously considers Damalis Senegalensis, Antilope 

 adenota and A.forfex (H. Smith) as synonyms of this species. 



