SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



850. 43. *A. Ptoox (the Dodger Antelope.) Male about 

 twenty inches high, and three feet long. More delicately 

 framed than the former; horns three inches long, with 

 three annuli at base, round, bent outwards, reclined, with- 

 out anterior ridge ; a small pencil of vertical black hairs 

 standing between the horns; rufous face and forehead; 

 orbits prominent ; lachrymary sinus a little prolonged ; 

 and further towards the nose a puncture, seeming to open 

 in a second pouch ; nose almost ovine ; general colour pale 

 dun above, beneath white ; a black streak down the fore 

 shanks, and a spot on the hinder pasterns ; tail short, dun, 

 and tipt with black. This may be a variety of the former 

 in a junior state. 



A. Grimmia, Pallas. A. Ptoox, Lichtenstein. Grimea 

 A. Pent. The Grimm of Leverian Museum in Shaw. 



Habitat. Southern and Western Africa, chiefly Guinea. 



851. 44. A. Grimmia (the Grimm.) Adult male seven- 

 teen and eighteen inches high, twenty-seven inches long; 

 structure very compact, more clumsily built than the 

 former, head thick, terminated by a muzzle ; horns very 

 short, stout, reclining, almost concealed in the long dark 

 hair of the forehead, which forms a kind of point between 

 them ; face dark ; ears short and broad ; a lengthened 

 suborbital slit, containing an unctuous substance beneath 

 the eye, but no lachrymary sinus ; general colour fulvous 

 fawn, with a dark ashy streak down the back ; the inferior 

 parts whitish, the legs dark, and tail longer than the pre- 

 ceding. Females darker. 



A. Grimmia, F. Cuvier. Capra Silvestris Africana, Grim. 

 Icon. F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. Nulns male and female. 

 Habitat. Guinea and Western Africa. 



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