MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope. 307 



tail is about feven inches long, and is terminated by a tuft of longifh hairs. This fpecies, according 

 to Mr Pennant, from the length of its hair and form of the horns, forms the link between the Goat 

 and Antelope kinds, being allied to both. 



2. Lerwee. — 2. Antilope Lertuia. 2. 



Of a reddifh colour, with a remarkable tuft of hair on the nape of the neck : The 

 horns are wrinkled, bent backwards, diftant in the middle, and approach each other 

 at the bafe and points- Pallas, fpic. zool. xii. 12. 



Antilope Kob, with the horns annulated at the bafe, bent outwards in the middle, and much 

 approaching at the tips. Erxl. mamm. 293. n. 23. — Kob, or Little brown Cow. Sm. Buff. vi. 406. 

 D°. Fr. ed. xii. 210. t. xxxii. f. 1. — Fifh-tall, or Lerwee. Shaw, It. i. 313. — Gambian Antilope. 

 Penn. hift. of quad. n. 41. 



Inhabits Africa, chiefly about the rivers Gambia and Senegal. — Is about the fize of the Fallow 

 Deer ; and is particularly remarkable by the tuft of hair on the nape of the neck, and by having 

 long brufhes of hair on the knees of the fore legs. The horns are about thirteen inches long, at 

 the bafe they meafure five inches and a half in circumference, their lower parts are furrounded with 

 eight or nine rings, the middle parts are very diftant, but the points, which are fmooth, come very 

 near each other. 



3. Chamois. —3. Antilope Rupicapra. 3. 



Has fmooth, rounded, erect horns, which are hooked backwards at the ends. Schre- 

 ber, v. t. eclxxix. 



Antilope rupicapra. Pall. mifc. zool. 7. Spic. zool. i. 4. and xii. 12. Erxleb. mamm. 268, 

 n. 1. — Capra rupicapra. Syft. nat. ed. xii. 95. n, 4. — Hircus rupicapra. Brill, regn. an. 66. n. 4. — 

 Ai'z, ay^toi. Oppian. cyneg. ii. 338. — Rupicapra. Plin. hift. nat. viii.c. 53. xi. c. 37. Gefn. quad.. 

 321. f. p. 3.19. Aldr. bif. 725. f. p. 727. Jonft. quad. 74. t. 27. 32. Charlet.exerc. 9. Wagn. 

 kelv. 183. Raj. quad. 78. Klein, quad. 17. Scheuchz. It. Alp. i. 155. Rzaczinf. Pol. 223. — 

 Chamois, Cemas, or Yfard. Obf. de Belon, 54. — Yfard, Yfarus, or Sarris. Gafton, ap. Fouilloux 

 Vener. gg. — Gems. Gefn. thierb. 140. Ridinger, jagdb. th. t. 12. — Cemas, or Kemas, of .iElian. 

 and Herodicus.. Bochart, hierozoic. iii. c. 22.— Chamois. Perr. an. i. 201. t. 29. Sm. Buff. vi. 

 363. pi clxxxviii. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 17. 



Inhabits the Alps of Dauphiny, Savoy, Swiflerland, and Italy ; the Pyrinean, Carpathian, Grecian 2 . 

 Cretan, CaufcafTan, and Taurus mountains. — Dwells in the molt inacceffible rocky parts of the 

 mountains, but feldom fo high as the Ibex, and generally keeps in coniiderable flocks ; feeds, moftly 

 before funrife and after funfet, on the twigs of fhrubs, herbs, and roots, being particularly fond of 

 the Meum athamanta, and certain balls, found in their ftomachs, called JEgagropilae, are fuppofed 

 by Kramer, Hift.. nat. Auftr. 320. to be occasioned by that kind of food ; in winter they retreat into 

 hollows of the rocks to avoid the. avelenches, or fhooting of the fnow. This animal has very nice. 

 fenfations of fmelling, fight, and hearing, and is exceedingly fhy, timid, and fvvift ; each herd has a 

 leader, who keeps watch on an eminence while the reft are feeding, and gives a fort of hifs, as a fig- 

 Hal, on feeing an enemy ; they are hunted in winter for their fkins, which make excellent foft fha- 

 moy leather, and for their flefh, which is reckoned very delicate ; the fport is both hazardous and i 



Qjl 2- laborious,. 



