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ANTELOPES AND UNICORNS. 
NYL-GHAU, OR PAINTED ANTELOPE.—DEER.—0OX.—— 
ANTELOPE.—GNU.— ZESU.— RHINOCEROS.—ORYX.—— 
UNICOR®S. 
FIFTEEN UNICORNS IN THE ROYAL PARK 
IN ABYSSINIA. 
‘¢ THE Admiral is certainly in the right,” 
said Mr. Dartmouth, as, one day, he was 
leading Miss Aston, and a friend of that 
young lady, through the yard which dis- 
covers the Ostrich and the Nyl-ghau ;— 
‘** the Admiral is certainly right, and we are 
but in the dawn of Zoology, or there would 
not be the confusion which commonly pre- 
vails, respecting the very distinguishable ge- 
nera of the Deer, Ox, and Antelope. There 
are striking peculiarities in each; but, as we 
pass by the Nyl-ghau, let me ask whe- 
ther either of you ladies have yet remark- 
ed how thoroughly this Antelope, like its 
fellows, is distinguished, upon the one hand 
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