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who still bore an analogy to Cervus nearest that family, 

 and then to class the true Antelopes and Gazelles into ap- 

 proximating gradations to Capra and Ovis. At the head, 

 the groups Dicranocerus, Aigocerus, and Oryx, might, per- 

 haps, be more properly converted into genera ; but that the 

 two latter seem to form types to which the cycle of the 

 tribe returns through Damalis : and, besides, the Oryges 

 contain the species from which the genus Antilope, as 

 already noticed, obtains its name. Notwithstanding their 

 size, the characters of Oryges are truly antilopine, and the 

 Aigoceri have so much affinity to them that they cannot 

 be separated with propriety by the interposition of others. 

 As such these two racemi should take the lead, if the small 

 American group Dicranocerus did not appear more na- 

 turally placed before them, because they have a greater 

 external similarity with Deer. After these three, the Ga- 

 zellee and Antilopes follow, succeeded by the Reduncae, 

 Cervicaprae, and other Racemi or groups, several of which 

 we have thought it advantageous to place into additional 

 subgeneric clusters, designated by proposed names which 

 either explain some common property in the species or are 

 derived from an indigenous name. Should some of these 

 groups be hereafter considered as real genera, the proposed 

 denominations and locality in a natural order may here, we 

 hope, be found approaching to their fixed position in na- 

 ture. The latter groups in the series assimilate gradually 

 with Capra -• among these, Nemorhaedus has nearly all the 

 characters of true Goats, but is still possessed of antilopine 

 horns, and Anoa presents the anomaly of caprine characters 

 with horns which partake of the Buffalo and Ovis ; while 

 Aplocerus shews another anomaly of characters; in which 

 Nemorhaedus is compounded with both Ovis and Capra, 

 and as such it is the last, and forms the connecting link 

 with these two genera. After these we place our proposed 

 genus Damalis, divided into groups according as their more 



