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MAMMALIA. 
Lion and Panther. The soft expression of its eye furnishes 
numerous images to the Arabian poets. 
A. corinna, Gm.; Buff. XII, xxvii. (The Corinna.) Only 
differs in the horns, which are much more slender. It is per- 
haps a mere variety of sex. 
A. kevella, Gm.; Buff. XII, cclxxv. (The Kevel.) Also very 
similar; but its horns are compressed at the base, and have a 
greater number of rings. The only mark in which it is even 
pretended that it differs from the hu of Kempfer, or the 
Tseyrain of the Persians and Turks, (4. subgutturosa, Gm.,) is 
a slight swelling under the throat of the latter. 
A. gutturosa, Pall.; Deseren of the Mongoles; Hoang Yang, 
or Yellow Goat of the Chinese; Schreb, CCLXXV. Nearly 
similar colours, and the same kind of horns as the Gazelle pro- 
perly so called; but it is nearly as large as the C. dama, and there 
is a considerable protuberance in the male produced by the 
larynx, and a large pouch under the belly. The female has no 
horns. This species lives in herds, in the barren plains of cen- 
tral Asia, and avoids both the forest and water. 
A. euchore, Forster; the Pouched Gazelle; Buff. Supp. VI, pl. 
xxi. (The Springbock.) The south of Africa is filled with 
herds of this species. It is larger than the Gazelle, but of the 
same form and colour ; it is distinguished by a fold of the skin 
of the croup covered with white hairs, which opens and enlarges 
at every bound the animal makes. 
A. sdiga, Pall.; Colus of Strabo; Schreb. CCLXXVI. (The 
Saiga.) Which inhabits the heaths of the south of Poland and 
Russia, has horns similar to the Gazelle, but yellowish and 
transparent. It is as large as the Deer, fawn coloured in sum- 
mer, and of a whitish grey in winter; its cartilaginous, thick 
and vaulted muzzle, with very expanded nostrils, compels it to 
retrograde in feeding. The herd sometimes consists of more 
than ten thousand individuals. 
A. dama, Pall., Acad. of Berl. 1824, pl. iii and iv. (The 
Nanguer.) Size of the C. dama; white ; the forehead, neck and 
part of the back red; horns small and slender. From Nubia 
and Senegal.(1) 
b. Horns annulated, and with a triple curve. 
A. cervicapra, Pall., Buff. Supp. VI, xviii and xix. (The An- 
(1) The only specimen known to Buffon (tom. XII, pl. xxxiv) was a young one 
with 
horns curved simply forwards, which induced him to believe it was the Dama 
of Pliny. 
