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an animal of greater magnitude than the com- 

 mon antilope ; and I imagine it belongs to an 

 antilope called tzelran by the Turks, and ahu 

 by the Perfians. This animal, fays Olearius *, 

 has fome refemblance to the fallow-deer, ex- 

 cept that it is reddiih, inftead of yellow j that 

 its horns have no antlers, and lie on the back, 

 &c. According to Gmelin |> who mentions 



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* We faw daily great numbers of a fpecies of ftag, called 

 Tzeiran by the Turks, and Ahu by the Perfians. They had 

 fome refemblances to our fallow deer ; but they were rather 

 reddifh than yellow, and their horns want antlers, and lie on 

 the back. They are exceedingly fwift, and are only found, 

 according to our information, in the province of Mokau, and 

 in the neighbourhood of Scamachia, Karraback, and Mer- 

 rage ; Relation d' Oleariuj, torn. 1. p. 413. 



•f I was ihown a kind of deer, called dfocren in the lan- 

 guage of the country. It refembled the roebuck, except that 

 it had tb,e horns of a wild he-goat, which never fall otf. 

 What is Angular in this animal, that, in proportion as his 

 horns grow, the lize of the larynx, or pomum Adami, augments ; 

 fo that, when old, he has a conhderable fwelling on his throat. 

 Dr MefTerfchmid aflerts that this roebuck has an abfolute 

 averfion to water. But the inhabitants of Tongus aifured 

 me, that, when hunted, he often takes to the water, in order 

 to make his efcape ; and Brigadier Bucholz, at Selenginfck, 

 told me, that he had tamed one completely ; that it iollowed 

 his fervant when fwimming ; and that it often went to an, 

 ifland in the river Selinga, which it never would have done, 

 if it had a natural averlion to water. Thefe roebucks are as 

 fwift as the faigas on the borders of the Irtis ; Voyage de M. 

 Gmelin en Siberis, torn. 2. p. 103. — M. Gmelin has iince given 

 a more complete defcription of this animal, in the New Pe- 

 terlburg Memoirs, under the appellation of Caprea Campeftris 

 gutturofa, of which the following is an abridgment : — This 

 animal refembles the roebuck in figure, fize, colour, and man- 



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