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animals, all of which were found to correspond with the respective 

 species which were subsequently procured. 



With the Antelopes, four species only of which are figured, the list 

 of Mammalia concludes. The Antilope montana, " Ant. corpora 

 " supra badio, infra albo ; cornubus Isevibus erectis ; regione parotica 

 " macula nuda rotunda ; cauda brevi," has been compared by M. Tem- 

 minck with the Ant scoparia, Schreb., to which it approaches most 

 nearly, but from which he has determined it to be distinct. It is from 

 the neighbourhood of Fazoql on the White Nile. Another species for 

 which we are indebted to the researches of M. Riippell is the Ant. Addax, 

 which we have already had occasion to mention under that name while 

 noticing the Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, and, in a different state 

 of clothing, under the name of the Ant. suturosa. Otto. It is thus cha- 

 racterized in the present work, " Ant. corpore lacteo; capite colore 

 " cacaotico, quo collum superinductum ; caprona frontali spadicea; 

 " cornubus, rugarum ambitu contortis, in Iseve fastigium exacutis, 

 " IjTatis; jugulo jubato." It is worthy of remark that the character here 

 given of the horns is in the very words of Pliny. It was found only in 

 certain parts of the desert to the south of Ambukol, where it lives in 

 small herds ; and M. Riippell states it to be so exceedingly fleet, that 

 even the best Arabian horses have much difficulty to keep pace -with it. 

 Four other species nearly resembling the preceding are mentioned in a 

 note which very briefly describes them, but of these our traveller was 

 unable to procure specimens. A third new species is the Ant. Soemme- 

 ringii, " Ant. corpore supra colore isabellino, pilis quasi sericatis, 

 " suturis \mdique implicatis nitescente ; infra splendide albo ; facie, 

 *' fronteque fuliginoso-nigris, taenia alba superciliari ; basi cornu ad 

 " rhinarium usque descendente ; cornubus annulatis reclinatis, apicibus 

 " leevibus introrsum flexis, lyratis." This is intermediate in size be- 

 tween Ant. Dama, and Ant. Euchore, and is found in pairs, or rarely 

 in small troops, in the eastern dependencies of Abyssinia. The remain- 

 ing species is the .^nt. Dama, Pall., to the male, the female, and the 

 young of which two plates are devoted. 



The illustrations of the Birds exceed in number those of the Mam- 

 malia, and embrace specimens of all the orders. Of the Raptores one 

 only is given, and this had been previously noticed by Mr. Burchell as 



