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and described byBuffon; and we hear that another has 

 been brought by Messrs. Denham and Clapperton from 

 Central Africa, where the natives called it Korrigum ; but 

 as the short notice on the subject unites Koba and the Se- 

 negal Antelope, some doubt respecting the identical species 

 must remain. According to Adanson, it is known to the 

 French on the Senegal by the name of Grande Vache Brunei 

 and it may be conjectured that the herds of dark-brown 

 Antelopes observed by Messrs. Smith and Cranch, during 

 their disastrous journey in the vicinity of the Congo, were 

 of the same species. M. de Blainville, however, gives the 

 following concise notice of this species. " It is confounded 

 with A. Pygarga; in size equal to a Stag; horns laterally 

 compressed, lyrated, nineteen (French) inches long, with 

 fifteen to seventeen rings about the lower end, and smooth 

 at the point; head fifteen inches long; ears nine inches; 

 colour dark rufous ; belly dirty white ; knees with black 

 spots ; legs slender; hoofs small ; tail a foot long, black, 

 covered with long hairs*." 



The Sassayby. (D. Lunata.) Mr. Daniell figures a 

 male animal under the name of Sassayby, with the charac- 

 ters of an Antelope, but without a description. The horns 

 in his plate, have certainly a great affinity to that genus, but 



* By the drawing and dimensions of the head in the British Mu- 

 seum, which we have since received, A. Senegalensis of Captain 

 Clapperton, is the Koba. The head is fourteen inches and a half 

 long ; facial line convex, with a dark streak down to the nose, 

 which terminates in a broad black muzzle ; the cheeks are brownish ; 

 lachrymary sinus not very evident ; horns placed on the summit of 

 the frontal ridge above the plane of the occiput, as in the former 

 species, nineteen inches long, five inches and a half from tip to 

 tip, curved backwards and inwards, with sixteen annuli, five or 

 six semi-annuli at base, where they are seven inches in circum- 

 ference. Mr. Pennant's A. Senegalensis appears to be a compound 

 made from the skull, brought by Mr. Adanson, and the skin of A. 

 Caama, which that author bought at Amsterdam. 



