SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



the thigh rufous, darkening into black about the liough, 

 and upon the hind legs ; short dark mane, and end of the 

 tuft of the tail black ; the rest of the body milk-white. 



Oryx, Oppian. Antholops, Eustathius. Leucoryx, Pent, 

 and others. EI Walrush and Bukrus of the Persians. 

 Ghau Bahrein in India. Jachmur and Yazmur of the 

 Arabs. 



Icon. Pent. Dr. Flemming. Nobis. 



Habitat. Eastern Arabia, the Island and Province of 

 Bahrein Mekran, Desert of Persia. 



816. 9 * ^. Tao, Nobis, (the Nubian Oryx.) May be 

 a variety of the former. Near four feet at the shoulders ; 

 seven feet in length ; horns three feet four inches long, 

 more robust, very spirally annulated, equally curved back- 

 wards ; nose blunt ; the neck longer, the structure more 

 elegant ; hoofs low and flat ; colour rufous and white, 

 forming a gray on the nose, temples, cheeks, neck, upper 

 arm, and lower part of the thigh ; more white over the 

 shoulders, back, flanks, and croup j a slight blackish mark 

 above and beneath the eye, and a broad white streak pass- 

 ing before it to the corner of the mouth ; mane and tuft of 

 tail white. 



Tao of the Hebrews and Egyptians. Dante and Lout 

 of Congo ? Leo Afric. de Bry. 



Icon. Nobis, from the superb specimen in the Frankfort 

 Mus. 



Habitat. Nubia, interior of North Africa. 



' 817. 10. * A. Besoastica (the Algazel.)is perhaps a third 

 variety. Three feet five inches high at the shoulder; five 

 feet two inches long; horns three feet long, round, slender, 

 bent back, with thirty-six annul i not spiral ; forehead nar- 

 row ; headlong; neck short; body clumsy ; legs slender ; 

 lachrymary sinus beneath the oyc ; reversed ridge of short 



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