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animals between the roebuck and goat. But, 

 when it is confidered that the roebuck exifts e- 

 oually in both Continents, and that the goats, 

 as well as the antilopes, are peculiar to the Old 

 Yv r orld, we are led to think, that the goats and 

 antilopes are more allied to each other than they 

 are to the roebuck. Belides, the onlv characters 

 peculiar to the antilopes are the tranfverfe rings 

 and longitudinal furrows on the horns; the tufts 

 of hair on the fore-legs ; a thick and well de- 

 fined band of black, brown, or reddifh hairs be- 

 low the flanks; and, lallly, three flripes of 

 whitifh hairs, which extend longitudinally up- 

 on the internal furfaceof the ears *. 



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' Algazel ex Africa, animal exoticum ... ex Africa Nea- 

 polim mi fiu m ; magnitudine Capreae, Capreoli dicli, cui toto 

 liabitu prima facie fimile, nifi quodcornibus nulli magis quam 

 hirco fimiliori'ous fit praeditum. . . Pilo eft brevi, levi, flavi- 

 cante, at in ventre et lateribus candicante, ficut in internis fe- 

 morum et brachiorum, illoque capreolo molliori. Aititudo 

 illias in pofterioribus, quae, fublimiora funt anterioribus tibiis, 

 tres fpithamas aequat. Corpus obefius, et collum craflnis 

 habet ; cruribus et tibiis admodum gracile : Ungulis bifulcis 

 admodum diifeclis, illifque tenuibus, et hircinis oblongioribus, 

 et acutioribus iimilitudine alces, et nigricantibus. Caudani 

 habet dodrantem fere pilofam, hircinam, et a medio ulque ad 

 extremum nigrefcentem, . . Hilaris afpec^u facics ; oculi 

 magni, nigri, lucidi, laeti ; aures longae, magnae, patulae^ in 

 profpectu eiatae, illaeque intus canaliculatae quinquefido flii- 

 gium ordine nigricante, extumentibus circa illas ftriis pilolis 

 candicantibus, et linea tenui circumduct. . • Cornua pe- 

 dem Romanum longa, retrorfum inclinata, hircina, ex nigro 

 callaneo colore cochleatim ftriata, et interno iitu ad invicem 

 jinuata, et poft dilatationem reflexa, atque deinde in extremo 

 parum acie refupinata. . . Nafus colore magis rufo, ficuti 



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