410 THE ANTILOPES, 



gtier in Senegal *, It is three feet and a half 

 in length, and two feet and a half in height. 

 It is of the figure and colour of a roebuck, be- 

 ing yellow on the upper part of the body, white 

 on the belly and thighs, with a white fpot under 

 the neck. Its horns are permanent, like thofe of 

 the other antilopes, and they exceed not fixorfe- 

 ven inches in length. They are black and round ; 

 but, what is fingular, they bend forward at the 

 points, nearly in the fame manner as thofe of 

 the chamois goat bend backward. The nanguer, 

 or fwift antilope, is a very handfome animal, 

 and eafily tamed. All thefe characters, and 

 chiefly that of the horns bending forward, in- 

 cline me to think that the nanguer may be the 

 dama or fallow deer of the ancients. ' Cornua 

 * rupicapris in dorfum adunca, damis in adver- 

 lum,' fays Pliny t- Now, the nanguers are the 

 only animals whofe horns are bended in this 

 manner ; we may therefore prefume, that the 

 nanguer of Africa is the dama of the ancients, 

 eipecially as we learn from another paiTage of 



Pliny, 



* The Swift antilope lias round horns, eight inches long, 

 and reverted at their ends. The length of the animal is 

 three feet ten inches, the height two feet eight inches. The 

 general colour is tawny. The belly, lower part of the fides, 

 rump, and thighs, are white. On the fore part of the neck, 

 there is a white fpot. But this fpecies varies in colour. 



Dama ; P\i nil lib. n. c. 37. 



Cemas ; Elian. An. lib. 14. c. 14. 



Antilope dama ; Pallas Mifcell. 5. fpictl. 8. 



f Hift. Nat. lib. 11. cap. 37. 



