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men was two feet high, three feet nine inches in length ; 

 the colour reddish-dun on the back and neck ; the head, 

 ears, belly, flanks, tail, and legs, white ; a dun streak ran 

 down the fore-legs from the knee to the fetlocks. There 

 was a rufous spot at the base of the horns, and a large 

 white spot on the throat; the horns w r ere about seven 

 inches long, black, round, bent back, and the points turned 

 forwards ; the annuli, if any, were indistinct. In this de- 

 scription, the inferior stature, small horns as yet without 

 discernible rings, the rufous colour on the fore-legs, &c. , 

 bear evidence of nonage, this being the semi-adult of 

 the former ; but whether Pliny meant this species by his 

 Dama, is more doubtful, because in the adult, the flexures 

 of the horns, though terminating with the point forwards, 

 are not more so than those of the Revel, which it is more 

 likely that he knew. It is equally questionable whether 

 iElian meant this species by his Dama, which undoubtedly 

 is as swift an animal as any of the genus, and, therefore, 

 well named by Mr. Pennant, but still it seems not likely that 

 the ancient naturalist should have characterized the fleet- 

 ness of its course by a comparison with the awful velocity 

 of the whirlwind. 



Dr. Pallas observed that this species has only six incisor 

 teeth, but if the statement be correct, it may be accidental, 

 there being in the Royal College of Surgeons another head 

 shewing only six alveoli, but, not being provided with 

 horns, it cannot belong to the same species, and there 

 being only five molars in the upper jaw, with other evident 

 signs of nonage, the circumstance may be entirely owing to 

 the youth of the specimen. Mr. Adanson found the Nan- 

 guer * in Senegal ; if his specimen and Ruficollis be the 



* Adanson's names of Nanguer and Nagor (passimj, are evi- 

 dently different modes of spelling and pronouncing the Bornou, 

 Engry, and Begharmu Ngria, which, according to Denham, sig- 

 nifies Gazelle. 



