224 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Count de Buffon drew up his account from the above frag- 

 ment, with the additional information, that in Senegal it 

 was known to the French settlers by the appellation of 

 Petite Vache Brune. The horns are large, black, marked 

 on the first two-thirds of their length with seven or eight 

 half rings ; the posterior and lateral sides striated : they 

 form only one single curve to the front, and the points turn 

 towards each other ; the head is narrow, long, and without 

 depressions for the lachrymary sinus. This description 

 shews already a sufficient difference in the, horns to separate 

 the former species from Kob, but whether the following 

 will be deemed satisfactory and identical with Adanson's 

 specimen, is more questionable. The inference, however, 

 appeared to us sufficiently grounded. 



In the Menagerie of Exeter 'Change there was a pair of 

 middle-sized Antelopes, like the former, supposed to belong 

 to the Iyrated group. The horns of the male were seated 

 above the orbits, at base nearly vertical to the plane of 

 the face, then bending back, and the tips almost imper- 

 ceptibly forwards : they were above nine inches long, ro- 

 bust, black, striated, a little compressed, with the semi- 

 annuli only on the anterior part, prominent, ten in num- 

 ber, the superior third smooth, but not sharp-pointed ; the 

 shoulder was about twenty-six inches high from the ground, 

 the back arched, and the croup one inch higher ; the head 

 long, pointed, with a small black muzzle ; the lips, under 

 jaw, and space round the eyes, white ; the ears long, open, 

 with the usual dark streaks on the inner surface ; the head, 

 back of the ears, neck, back, flanks, outside of the fore-legs 

 croup, thighs, and hind-legs, fulvous bay; a small gland or 

 tubercle on the loins, about equi-distant from the hips and 

 root of the tail formed the centre, round which the hair of 

 the body whirled or feathered in a circle, couching for- 

 ward on the back, and upwards on the neck, obliquely over 



