4 i2 THEANTILOPES, 



varieties of thofe nanguers, which differ only 

 in colour; but all their horns are more more or 

 lefs bended forward. 



The tenth gazelle is an animal very common 

 in Barbary and Mauritania, and is called the 

 antilope* by the Britifh, which name I mall pre- 

 ferve. It is of the fize of our largeft roebucks. 

 Though it has a great refemblance to the gazelle 

 and kevel ; yet it differs in fo many characters, 

 that it ought to be regarded as a diftincl: fpecies. 

 The pits below the eyes are larger in the anti- 

 lope than in the gazelle. Its horns are almoft 

 fourteen inches long ; and, though they near- 

 ly touch at the bafe, yet their points are fif- 

 teen or fixteen inches afunder. They are fur- 

 rounded with rings and half rings, which are 



lefs 



* The common antilope has upright horns, twilled fpirally, 

 and furrounded almoft to the top with prominent rings : 

 They are about fixteen inches long, and twelve inches distant 

 between point and point. In fize, it is rather lefs than the 

 fallow deer or buck. The colour is brown mixed with red, 

 and dufky. The belly and infide of the thighs are white. 

 The tail is fhort, black above, and white beneath. The fe- 

 males want horns ; Pennant's Synopf. of quad. p. 32. 



Strepficeros ; Pliriu Nifl. nat. lib. 8. c. 53. & lib. II. c. 37. 



Gazelle ; Mem. pour ftrvir a Vhift. des animaux, part. I. p. 95. 



fig' \ 1 - 



Gazella Africana, the antilope ; Rail Synopf. quad. p. 79. 



Hircus cornibus teretibus, dimidiato annulatis, bis arcuatis; 

 Brijjon. quad. p. 44. 



Tragus ftrepficeros ; Klein, quad. p. 1 8. 



Capra cervicapra, cornibus teretibus, dimiato-annulatis, 

 fiexuofis, contortis ; Linn. Syjl. Nat. p. 96. 



Antilope cervicapra; Pallas Mi/cell. p. 9. fpicil. 18. tab* 

 I. 6" 2. 



