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CLASS MAMMALIA. 



curved horns. These characters would refer to a larger 

 animal (more likely to be the Takhaitze of Daniell, if there 

 were no other considerations which we shall notice in the 

 genus Ovis), but most clearly exclude it from the Gambian 

 Antelope described by Mr. Pennant. 



The specimen which we refer to the Gambian was kept 

 in the Menagerie of Exeter 'Change, and there confounded 

 with the rest of middle-sized Lyrated Antelopes. It was a 

 male, larger than the Springer, being about twenty-five 

 inches at the shoulder, rather bulky of body, but with much 

 resemblance to Kevella. The horns close at the base, 

 slightly bent forwards, then opened widely outwards, and 

 their points again turned inwards, and slightly forwards ; 

 they were black, round, annulated, with twelve complete 

 rings, the upper third smooth and pointed ; when seen in 

 front, they represented the figure of a forceps, and mea- 

 sured about twelve inches on the curves ; the head was 

 broad across the orbits, measuring ten inches in length, 

 and terminating in a small mouth with white lips, and a 

 black shining muzzle between the nostrils ; the eyes were 

 full and dark, surrounded by a white space, and beneath 

 them was a long lachrymary sinus ; the ears were rather 

 large, open, and slightly pointed, lined with close white 

 hair, and from the orifice filled with a bunch of long white 

 and gray hairs, hanging out of their conchs between two 

 and three inches in length # . The face, cheeks, back of the 

 ears, neck, shoulders, back, croup, sides, external face of 

 the upper arm, thighs, rump, houghs, and anterior face of 

 the hind-legs, were fulvous-dun, darkening into yellowish- 

 brown on the face and buttocks ; the tail, about six inches 

 long, of the same colour, with a black line on the middle, 

 and a tuft of black hair at the end, the inferior part white ; 



* This character is also perceptible in Mr. Pennant's figure of 

 the head, but his description of the horns is more conformable to 

 ours than to his figure. 



