180 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



fessor, in the Observ. Zoolog. i. 88. It is stated to be fifteen 

 inches in circumference at base, two feet and a half long 

 in a straight line, and three feet and a half if measured 

 along the curve. It is erect, the point bent back, com- 

 pressed, rounded behind, carinated and rough ; on the in- 

 ternal side smoother, and separated from the back by an 

 obsolete ridge, through which, the summit being smoother, 

 oblique wrinkles ascend, and along the external surface, 

 furrows more numerous but less deep descend*. This 

 horn was brought in 1795-6, from L'Orient in France, and 

 conveyed to Sweden ; it was probably obtained through 

 the commercial relations of that city, from the west coast 

 of Africa, and may also be suspected to have belonged to 

 the Empalanga or Wadan, if both names do not refer to 

 the same animal ; which also the Korookoo of the Bor- 

 mouese may designate. 



The Takhaitze. (A. Barbata.) Among the unsatis- 

 factory indications of names and horns, we have ano- 

 ther species to notice, figured under the above denomi- 

 nation, by Mr. Daniell, in his African Scenery and there 

 said to be in stature, general conformation, and colours 

 like the Blue and Roan Antelopes. It has been sur- 

 mised that, in fact, the Takhaitze was no other than the 

 above, and this probability was increased by Mr. Burchell 

 searching in vain for the present animal where it was said 

 to exist, and finding in its stead the Equina already de- 

 scribed. That animal when seen at a distance, appears 

 rufous, and, in fact, among Mr. Daniell's original sketches, 

 we have seen one of this animal so coloured ; but we are 

 assured by his surviving brother, that the long mane, the 

 beard, and the character of the horns is the same in all the 



* I must here observe that my version is taken from a MS. so 

 illegibly written that I am not sure of the correctness of the above 

 translation from the Latin. It is not improbable that A. Grandicornis 

 belongs in reality to our proposed genus Damalis. 



