SPECIES OF jMAMMALIA. 



rings, the tips smooth ; forehead broad ; nose tapering 

 with incipient black muzzle ; ears large, open, with tufts 

 of long hair hanging out of the conch ; lengthened lachry- 

 mary opening ; general colour fulvous dun ; space round 

 the orbits and inferior parts white ; tail short, with black 

 tuft; dark streak down the front of the legs, with spot 

 on pastern joints; small dark brushes on knees; female 

 smaller ; two mammae ; no tufts on the ears. 



Gambian Ant. Pennant. 



Icon. Head, Pennant. Male and female, Nobis. 



Habitat. Central and west coast of Africa. 



828. 21. A. Adcnota, Nob. (the Kob ?) Male about 

 twenty-six inches high at the shoulders; horns at base 

 nearly vertical, spreading outwards, then bending back, tips 

 slightly forward, nine inches and a half long, robust, black, 

 striated, compressed at base, with ten semi-annuli on the 

 anterior side, and the points smooth ; head long, pointed, 

 terminated with small black muzzle; general colour fulvous 

 bay ; space round orbits, lips, and under parts white ; a 

 small glandulous tubercle on the loins, from whence the 

 hairs whirled in a circle over the body; a dark streak on 

 the anterior face of the legs, with a band of the same 

 colour at the fetlocks ; a dark brush on the knees ; tail 

 short, wholly covered with long black hair ; female re- 

 sembling the male, but without horns. 



Le Kob ? Buff. A. Kob ? Desmarets. Petite vache brune ? 

 Icon. Nobis male and female. 

 Habitat. Central and Western Africa. 



829. 22. A. Coins (the Saiga.) Male something less 

 than the Fallow Deer ; body bulky ; head thick and heavy ; 

 horns distant, between spiral and lyrate, about ten inches 

 long, erect, annulated, diaphanous, and yellowish in colour ; 

 the nose broad and cartilaginous; colour gray-dun, with 



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