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along the curve, one foot nine inches ; the distance between 

 them at base, one inch and a half, and at the tips, one foot; 

 the ears nine inches and a half. 



That enterprising and scientific traveller discovered his 

 specimens while in search of the Takhaitze of Mr. 

 Daniell, upon the most elevated plains and hills which 

 divide the waters of South Africa in the vicinity of Lee- 

 takoo. They are said to live in pairs, or small troops of 

 four or five together, keeping chiefly among the scattered 

 open woods about the sources of the Gareep. 



There is a horn preserved in the Museum of Paris, re- 

 sembling those of the two preceding species in its general 

 characters, but probably of an animal still undescribed. It 

 is exceedingly heavy and thick at the base, three feet five 

 inches and a half long, and marked with forty-eight or 

 forty-nine annuli. No memorandum indicates from whence 

 it was brought, and as several unknown fragments of a 

 zoological nature have been formerly introduced into France 

 from its establishments on the west coast of Africa, it is 

 possible that it came from thence, and, perhaps, belongs to 

 the Empalanga, Empabunga, and Empalunca of Purchas, 

 De Bry, and other authors and travellers. De Bry repre- 

 sents this animal as similar to an ox, excepting that it 

 carries the head and neck erect like a stag, and is armed 

 with long horns knotty at base and the points turned in- 

 wards. In another place the horns are said to be straight, 

 only bending slightly inwards at the tips *. 



The Great-horned Antelope, Antelope Grandicornis of 

 Herman, is another which may belong to the same animal, 

 if we judge from the horn described by that learned pro- 



* De Bry. Regnum Congo, page 22. Icon, in prima parte 

 Icc-num ad Indise orientalis partem 11. 



