HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE CHEVROTAIX AND MEMINNA. 



(Lc Chevrotaiii dc (iuinea, Buff.) 



THE Chevrotain, or little Guinea Deer, is the 

 smallest of all the Antelope kind, the least of all 

 cloven-footed quadrupeds, and, we may add, the 

 most beautiful. Its fore legs, at the smallest part, 

 are not much thicker than a tobacco pipe ; it is not 

 more than seven inches in height, and about twelve 

 from the point of the nose to the insertion of the 

 tail : its ears are broad ; and its horns, which are 

 straight, and scarcely two inches long, are black 

 and shining as jet ; the colour of the hair is a 

 reddish brown ; in some a beautiful yellow, very 

 short and glossy. 



These elegant little creatures are natives of Sene- 

 gal and the hottest parts of Africa ; they are like- 

 wise found in India, and in many of the islands 

 adjoining to that vast continent. 



In Ceylon, there is an animal of this kind called 

 Me in in mi, which is not larger than a Hare, but 

 perfectly resembling a Fallow-Deer. It is of a grey 



