The ANTI LOPES, or GA- 

 ZELLES*. 



OF the animals called antilopes, we know 

 thirteen fpecies, or at leaft thirteen diftincl: 

 varieties. In this uncertainty with regard to 

 ipecies and variety, we thought it belt to treat 

 of the whole under one article, affigningto each, 

 however, a proper name. The firft of thefe ani- 

 mals is the common gazelle , or Barbary anti- 

 lope t» which is found in Syria, Mefopotamia, 

 and other provinces of the Levant, as well as in 



Barbary, 



* In Arabic Gaza/, a generic name applied to feveral fpe- 

 cies of animals. 



f The horns of the Barbary antilope are twelve inches 

 long, round, inclining firft backward, bending in the middle, 

 and then reverting forward at their ends, and annulated with, 

 about thirteen rings on their lower part. The upper fide of 

 the body is of a reddifh brown colour ; the lower part and 

 buttocks are white. Along the (ides, the two colours are fe- 

 parated from each other by a ltrong dufky line. On each, 

 knee there is a tuft of hair ; Pennant's Synopf. of quad. p. 33. 



Gazella Africana, cornibus brevioribus, ab imoadfummum 

 fere annulatis et circa medium innexis ; Raii SympJ. quad. p. 8c 



Capra dorca, cornibus teretibus, perfecle annulatis, recur- 

 vatis, contonis ; Linn. Syjl. Nat. p. 96. 



Algazel ex Africa ; Hernand. H:j}. Mexic. p. 893. 



Hircus cornibus teretibus, arcuatis, ab imo adiummumfere 

 annulatis, apice tantummodo levi . . Gazella Africana ;. 

 La Gazelle d'Afrique ; Brijjon, quad. p. 45. 



Dorcas, Dorcades Libycae ventre funt albo, qui color cis 

 ad laparas ufque adfcendit, ad ventrem vero utiiuque latera 

 nigris vittis dillinguuntur ; reliqui corporis color rtlfus auC 

 fiavus eft, et pedes quidem eis longi funt, ocuii nigri, cornibus 

 caput ornatur, et ior.gi'umas aures habent ; Elian, dt ■ .. 

 auim.lib. 14. cap. 14. 



