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lyrated, about thirteen inches long, annulated at base, semi- 

 annulated in the middle, with twelve or thirteen bars ; the 

 points smooth and sharp, slightly turned forwards, and the 

 sides of the horn striated ; the forehead and chaffron form 

 a slight concavity, rufous in colour, with a little black in 

 the middle, separated by a white or fawn-coloured streak, 

 extending from the orbits to the nostrils, and succeeded by 

 another white and black streak, passing from the inner 

 angle of the eyes towards the nose ; the lower half of the 

 orbits, and part of the cheek, are likewise fawn coloured, 

 or whitish ; the inside of the ears is marked by five alter- 

 nate streaks of white and black ; the eyes are remarkably 

 large, black, and beautiful ; and the mouth and inside of 

 the nostrils are black. The general colour of the animal 

 is pale fulvous, reaching down the anterior and external 

 side of the legs; the lips, nose, breast, belly, inside of the 

 thighs, posterior part of the legs and buttocks, white ; the 

 tail is short, furnished with a tuft of long black hair ; a 

 broad dark-brown band separates the fulvous of the side 

 from the white of the belly ; there are small tufts of hair 

 below the knees, and inguinal pores in the groin : the female 

 is furnished with more slender horns, whose points are 

 turned inward, and with two mammae. We have exa- 

 mined thirteen individuals of both sexes of this species, 

 several of which lived in the Menagerie of Exeter 'Change. 

 They were all brought from Barbary and the Levant, the 

 Dorcas seeming to be confined to the north side of the Atlas 

 Mountains, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, and Southern Persia: 

 they are gregarious, from choice or necessity, keeping on 

 the open and often desert and sandy plains, approaching 

 water only once in twenty-four hours, and that in general 

 at the dawn of day. 



The Kevel. (A. Kevella.) This species or variety, when 

 fully adult, is equal in size to the Dorcas, distinguishable 

 from it by the head being a little more lengthened, and the 



