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 Bennett (Proc. Zool. Soc, 183^ P- \) which is a real Antelope, and 

 ■which I hope sliortly to have an opjiortunity of describing in detail 

 under the name oiA. Boria, as a friend, who has connexions with the 

 West Coast of Africa, has kindlj' undertaken to procure me skins. 



" 3. AntilopePhilantomba. Two females of this minute speciesUved 

 for some tune in the Society's Gardens : they were brought from 

 Sierra Leone and presented by Mr. M'^Cormick. Mr. Kendall, who 

 saw them with me at the Gardens, assured me that they were the 

 PMlantomba of the Sierra Leone negroes. The larger and older spe- 

 cimen has small horns about 1 1 inch long, bent slightly forwards 

 and surrounded at the base with 5 or 6 small rings : the species is 

 distinguished from the pygmy Antelope of the Cape by its longer tail 

 and ears, the latter clothed with white hair on the inside, by the 

 darker mouse -colour of the body and the uniform hue of the legs, 

 which instead of being sandy red as in the Cape species, are of the 

 same colour as the body, only rather paler. But for the circumstance 

 of the female possessing horns, I should have been inclined to iden- 

 tify this animal with the A. Maxwellii of Col. Smith. 



"4. Antilope Siimatrensis. This species and A . Thar were exhibit- 

 ed together for the purpose of pointing out the similarity of their 

 zoological characters, and correcting a mistake into which Messrs. F. 

 Cuvier, Desmarest, and Col. Smith have fallen with regard to the 

 former species. According to these zoologists the Cambing Out an 

 {A. Sumatre7isis) possesses both the lachrymal sinus and the longi- 

 tudinal gland on the maxillary bone, which distinguishes the Duy- 

 kerbok (A . Mergens) and some other Antelopes : in reality the lachry- 

 mal sinus is sufficiently distinct, but there is not the slightest trace 

 of any maxillary gland. The same zoologists represent the female 

 Cambing as being without horns and having only two teats : the spe- 

 cimen exhibited, a young female, had tolerably large horns and di- 

 stinctly showed four teats, thus agreeing in all respects with the adult 

 female TJiar with which it was compared. 



"5. Antilope patmata. Colonel Smith has described the horns of 

 this species from an imperfect pair preserved in the Museum of the 

 College of Surgeons, but was undecided whether it should be con- 

 sidered as a distinct species or only a variety of the Pi-ongbaick {A. 

 Furcifer). The present perfect pair, with the skin of the head at- 

 tached, goes far to prove the specific distinction, but the habitat is 

 widely different from that assigned by Colonel Smith. The speci- 

 men came from Mexico, where Dr. Coulter informs me it is sufficient- 

 ly common. The horns are twice or thrice as large again as those of 

 A. Furcifer, and instead of preserving a tolerable degree of parallelism, 

 as in that species, spread widely, and are much hooked a1 the points. 

 The face also is of a very dark brown colour, whilst in A. Furcifer it 

 is of the same light fawn as the upper parts of the body." 



Mr. Gray exhibited a specimen of Argonaut with an Ocytkoe 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, and stated that as the subject had 

 been brought forward at the last meeting, he was induced to remark 

 that every time he considered it, and compared it under its various 



