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species, enables it to climb rocks, and it prefers mountainous dis- 
tricts.* 
A. gazella, L.; Ant. leucoryx, Licht., Acad. Berl. 1824, pl. i. 
(The Algazel). Horns long, slender, and slightly curved into an 
are of a circle; hair whitish, variously tinged with a fawn or reddish 
colour. Found in North Africa, from Nubia to Senegal. It is 
often sculptured on the monuments of Egypt and Nubia; and M. 
Lichtenstein thinks it is the true Oryx of the antients. 
g. Horns annulated with a simple curve, the points directed backwards. 
A. leucophea, Gm.; improperly called T'seiran, Buff. Supp. VI. 
pl. xx. (The Blue Antelope). A little larger than the stag, ofa 
bluish ash-colour; large horns in both sexes, uniformly curved, and 
with upwards of twenty rings. 
A. equina, Geoff. (The Equine Antelope).{ As large as a 
horse; of a reddish-grey; brown head; a white spot before each 
eye; a mane on the neck; large horns, &c. 
A. sumatrensis, Shaw; Cambing-Outang, or Goat of the Woods of 
the Malays, Fr. Cuv. Mammif.; and Marsden, Sumat., 2d ed. pl. x. 
(The Antelope of Sumatra). Size of a large goat; black; a white 
mane on the neck and withers; the horns pointed and small.§ 
h. Horns encircled with a spiral ridge. 
A. oreas, Pall.; Elk of the Cape of the Dutch; improperly called 
Coudous by Buff. Supp. VI. pl. xii. (The Canna or Impooko). As 
large as the largest horse; large, conical, straight horns, surrounded 
by aspiral ride; hair greyish; a small mane along the spine; a kind 
of dewlap under the neck; the tail terminated by a tuft. It lives in 
troops in the mountains north of the Cape.|| 
A. strepciseros, Pall.; improperly called Condoma by Buff. Supp. 
IV. pl. xiii, Schreb. 267. (The Codous). Size of a stag; brown- 
* The A. leucoryx, Schr. CCLVI. B. or the White Antelope of Penn, taken from a 
drawing made in Persia in 1717, appears to be a mere variety of the Oryz, or, per- 
haps, of an Algazel viewed in front. 
+ The English speak of an antelope with almost straight horns, stiff hairs wooily 
at their base, which sometimes loses one of its horns, from the mountains of Thibet, 
which was pointed out to them as corresponding with the Unicorn, which is one of 
the supporters of their coat of arms. It is called Chiru. M. Ham. Smith thinks it 
may be the Kemas of AXlian, I. xiv, c. 14. 
{ We have definitively ascertained that it is the Equine Antelope which is now 
called the Koba in Senegal. The 4. redunca, or Nagor of Buff. is there called the 
Mibill. 
§ Add the 4. goral, Hardw. Lin. Trans. XIV. pl. xiv, and in the Mammif. F. Cuv. 
under the name of Bouguetin de Nepaul; the A. sylvicultrix. There should, also, 
probably, be added the American woolly species, with long hair and very small horns 
(A. lanigera, Smith), Lin. Trans. XIII. pl. iv, and perhaps the one Seba represents, 
T. pl. xlii, x, iii, and which M. Ham. Smith calls 4. mazama. There is nothing, 
however, to prove that the Mazames of Hernandez are not the stags and roebucks of 
America, as is observed by that author, who compares them to the stags and roe- 
bucks of Spain. 
|| Near the Canna should be placed the Guib (4. scripta), Buff. XII. pl. xl.—The 
Bosch- Bock (A. sylvatica), Buff. Supp. VI. xxy. 
