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The Pallah inhabits the interior of Caffrarea, and particu- 

 larly the Booshwana country, never appearing, according 

 to Lichtenstein, south of the Koosges Valley. They live in 

 small families of seven or eight. 



We compared the figures of Professor Lichtenstein and 

 Daniell with three skins of males, and several heads and 

 horns, all so nearly alike, as to prove that this species is 

 nottheKoba*; the angular bend in the horns being con- 

 stant in all, and the distribution of the colours the same. 

 In the Berlin specimen the black spots on the legs descend 

 lower, and are larger than in those belonging to the Bur- 

 chellian collection or the British Museum, and it was from 

 these particular spots that the learned Lichtenstein drew 

 his specific name of Melampus. 



The Gambian Antelope. (A. Forfex.) This name, first 

 established by Mr. Pennant, and by him applied to the 

 Kob, is, however, of a doubtful nature, as it respects the 

 species we have to notice. Gmelin joins the Lerwia or 

 Teshtal of the traveller Shaw to it ; but in order not to 

 mislead the judgment, it is necessary to produce the cha- 

 racters, such as the original authors of these names have 

 established them, and compare them with the description 

 of our species taken from a living specimen. Mr. Pennant 

 characterizes it thus : " horns thirteen inches long, five 

 inches and a half round at bottom, pretty close at the base 

 and points, very distant in the middle, surrounded with 

 eight or nine rings, smooth in the upper part." This de- 

 scription is evidently taken from a pair of horns alone. 

 Dr. Shaw, however, copying Gmelin, likewise adds the 

 Lerwia, which is described by his namesake the traveller, 

 as of the size of a heifer, is provided with a long mane, 

 tufts of hair five inches long round the fore-legs, and re- 



* Koba, it will be seen, belongs in all probability to our genus 

 Damalis. 



