192 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



shoulder, and five feet two inches long. The horns are 

 about three feet long, close together at the base, black, 

 round, slender, bent back, the lower half annulated with 

 thirty-six rings, not spirally ascending, but separate ; the 

 forehead is narrow, the head long, with a small laehrymary 

 sinus not much developed, beneath the eye : on the neck 

 and back a low ridge of reversed hair, and the colour of 

 the body fulvous-gray, whiter on the back ; the head white, 

 with a dark spot at the insertion of the horns, descending 

 down the nose, and another passing through the eyes ; 

 the tail white, with the termination of the tuft dark : 

 this description was taken from a male which lived in 

 the Menagerie of the king at Paris, where we made a 

 drawing of it in 1819. 



The animal wanted that elegance and vigour in its pro- 

 portions so conspicuous in the Numidian species : in cap- 

 tivity it was gentle, or more properly, spiritless, almost 

 sluggish. The ears, which in comparison to the former 

 were long and pointed, usually hung in an horizontal 

 spreading direction ; the Museum received it from Senegal, 

 where it was said to be rare, and imported from the in- 

 terior. From the specific name this should be the Bezoar, 

 bearing animal : but we have already stated our opinion 

 that the former is, in truth, the animal which naturalists 

 intended to honour with this title ; and as these concretions 

 are in all probability not more the property of one than 

 the other species, and the medicinal virtues of the Bezoar 

 not the object before us, we shall leave the considera- 

 tion to pharmacy, its proper place. We presume it to be 

 the species met by Major Denham south of the river 

 Shary. 



Count de BufFon figures a horn without rings, but in all 

 other respects belonging to this group. We have seen a 

 similar horn in the hands of a dealer at Leipsic, three feet 



