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cients and moderns, with our own experience, 

 we find, 1. That the &»{**« of Ariftotle is not the 

 gazelle, but the roebuck j though the fame word 

 kg*** has been employed by ./Elian, not only 

 to denote the wild goats in general, but parti- 

 cularly the Lybian gazelle or Barbary antilope ; 

 2. That the Jirepficeros of Pliny, or addax of 

 the Africans, is the antilope; 3. That the da- 

 ma of Pliny is the nanguer of Africa, and not 

 our fallow deer, or any other European animal; 

 4. That the ^ of Ariftotle is the fame with the 

 Zo S *ej of iElian, and the srA«T«*igos of the more mo- 

 dern Greeks ; and that the Latins have ufed this 

 word platyceros to denote the fallow deer : 

 1 Animalium,' fays Pliny, * quorundam cornua 

 4 in palmas finxit natura, digitofque emifit ex 

 * iiis, unde platycerotas vocant \ 5. That the 

 *yy« ? yo ? of the Greeks is probably the Egyptian 

 or Perfian gazelle, that is, the algazel or pafaiu 

 The word pygargus is employed by Ariftotle 

 folely to denote the while tailed eagle ; and Pliny- 

 has ufed the fame word to denote a quadruped. 

 Now, the etymology of pygargus indicates, 1. 

 An animal with white thighs, fuch as the roe- 

 bucks, or gazelles ; 2. A timid animal ; the an* 

 cients, imagining that white thighs indicated ti- 

 midity, afcribed the intrepidity of Hercules to 

 his having black thighs. But, as almoft all the 

 authors who fpeak of the pygargus as a qua- 

 druped, mention likewife the roebuck, it is ob- 

 vious, that the name pygargus can only apply 

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