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we may add that Buffon, in noticing the above passage of 

 Leo, seems to have been misled by a wrong comma, 

 making the legs of the animal, instead of the size, less 

 than that of an ox. 



The Algazel *. (A Bezoastica.) This is, perhaps, a third 

 variety, though M. F. Cuvier considers it a species. If 

 this opinion be correct, it follows that the animal de- 

 scribed by him under the above name, being a native of 

 Western Africa, has usurped the specific appellation which 

 should have been conferred upon the foregoing according 

 to Zoologists, because that is known on the banks of the 

 Nile, while this appears to be more confined to the regions 

 of the Niger and Gambia. M. Schreber first published 

 a figure without a description, under the specific desig- 

 nation of A. Eleotragus which is in reality that of the 

 Rietbock or A. Arundinacea. The Icon itself may be re- 

 ferred to the present species, though the pale bluish and 

 rufous tone of the colouring and other particulars, might 

 prove it to be intended for the female of Leucophaeaf. 

 Professor Lichtenstein first pointed out the probable iden- 

 tity of this supposed A. Eleotragus with A. Bezoastica, 

 and M. F. Cuvier seems to have been of the same opinion. 

 To the latter gentleman we owe the only accurate account 

 of the species. 



The Algazel is very considerably less than the former 

 species, being only three feet five inches high at the 



* Al gazl is evidently misapplied, as Gazl signifies a young 

 deer, a roe, in fact the true Gazelle; but modern Zoology has 

 affixed it to an oryx. 



t A horn in the possession of Mr. Parkinson is very like those 

 in this figure. It is compressed, more bent than those of Bezoar- 

 tica, about twenty inches long, slender, black, not quite complete 

 at base, but retaining twenty-seven obsolete annuli; the lower 

 dichotomous and with strise between them, the superior third, 

 smooth, and pointed. It does not belong to Oryx, but may be of 

 the female of Leucophsea. 



