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served, notices the sight of herds of a small species of An- 

 telope striped with white ; and as he was thoroughly versed 

 in Zoology, he would have recognised them to be the 

 Scripta, if he had not considered them as of a different 

 species. Hence, also, it is probable that they differ in 

 manners from the former ; and we find that they reside on 

 the barren plains above the great falls of the Zezere, or 

 Congo. 



The N^emorh^dine Group. 



Several of the latter groups shewed a gradual decline of 

 the typical characters of Antelope, both in the horns and 

 limbs, approaching more and more toward the genus 

 Capra, and the present appears still more nearly allied to it. 

 The deer-like conformation of their structure is not only re 

 placed by robuster forms, but the head assumes a Caprine 

 shape ; the mild dark eye of the true Antelopes gives place 

 to the yellow or light hazel pupil ; the skull is solid and 

 heavy, but the horns still retain a round and falcated cha- 

 racter, which is intermediate between the Cephalophine 

 racemus, and Capra, and some shew the pouch upon the 

 intermaxillary bone, and the muzzle common to the for- 

 mer ; on the other hand, the legs, and the character of the 

 hair, which is coarse, and often shaggy, belong to the 

 latter. They seem to have, invariably, a white mark on the 

 throat : the females are hornless, and have two mammae ? 

 They reside principally in the forests and high mountains of 

 Central Asia, and of the great Indian Archipelago. 



The Cambing Ootan. (A. Sumatrensis.) Mr. Marsden 

 first described this species in his history of Sumatra, and a 

 specimen was formerly preserved in the British Museum. 

 The Malay name signifies wood-goat ; and it would appear 

 that there are varieties, if not different species of this ani- 

 mal, on the neighbouring islands. The body, limbs, and 

 form of the Cambing are compact, measuring about four 



