308 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope. 



laborious, on account of the rugged mountains and rocks which they frequent, and they are moftly 

 fhot with riffled guns. The Chamois is about the fize of an ordinary Goat, but has longer limbs, 

 and the fur, at the beginning of rummer, is fhorter ; it is of a deep reddifh brown colour, with a 

 blackifh line along the back ; the fore-head, top of the head, cheeks, throat, and infides of the ear*, 

 are white ^ the upper lip is half divided ; the knees have brufhes, or bunches of hair ; the tail is 

 fhort, and blackiih underneath ; the belly is yellowifh ; the hoofs are much divided : In both frxes 

 the horns are black, flender, upright, and wrinkled, except at their extremities., which are hooked 

 backwards ; and behind each is a large orifice in the fkin. They procreate in October or November, 

 and in March or April the female has two or three young ones at a birth. 



6So 4. Nanguer.— -4. Antilope Damn. 4, 



The horns are hooked forwards at the ends ; the upper parts of the body are tawny 

 yellow, the under parts white, with a v/hite fpot on the cheft. Sm. Buff. -vi. 309. 

 pi. cxcvii. Schreber, v. t. cclxiv. 



.Antilope Dama, of a white colour, the back tawny, and having a tawny band at the region of 

 the eyes. Pallas, mifc. zool. 5. Spic. zool. i. 8. and xii. 13. n. 4. — Dama. Plin. hift. nat. viii. . 

 c. 53. xi. c. 37. Gefh. quad. 334. Aldr. bif. 729. Jonft. quad. 75. t. 27. Raj. quad. 83. — Swift 

 Antelope. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 28. ; and, in his opinion, the K»,««s, or Cemas, of iElian, lib. 

 xiv. c. 14. 



Inhabits Senegal. — This animal is three feet ten inches in length, from the nofe to the origin of 

 the tail, and two feet eight inches high at the fhoulder ; the greater part of the body is white, but 

 the back, upper parts of the fides, and the head, are tawny, or yellowifh ; there are, however, varie- 

 ties in this fpecies as to colour. Both fexes are furnifhed with horns, which are round, about eight 

 inches long, confiderably bent or hooked forwards, and fharp pointed; there are only fix fore-teeth 

 in-the lower jaw. The Nanguer is very fwift, and is eaiily tamed; .iElian compares the flight of the 

 %,*!**!, which Mr Pennant fuppofes to.be the animal here defcribed, to the rapidity of a whirlwind. 



681 "5 . Nagor >— '5 . $n tilope re dune a . 5 . 



Of a. reddifh colour, with ftiff upright hair : The horns are bent forwards at the ends. 

 Schreber, v. t. eclxv. 



Antilope redunca. Pallas, mifc. zool. 5. Spic. zool. i. 8. xii. 13. n. 5. — Nagor. Sm. Buff. vii. 3S. 

 pi. ccii. — Red Antilope. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 29. 



Inhabits Senegal, and at the Cape of Good Hope. — The length of this fpecies is about four feet, 

 its height two feet three inches ; the horns are about five inches and a half long, with two flight 

 fmooth rings at the bafe, and are bent gently forwards ; the ears are almoft as long as the horns : 

 The general colour is a pale reddifh, paleft on the cheft. According to Dr Gmelin, this fpecies is 

 the K/i^as, of iElian. 



682 6. Biggel. — 6. Antilope Tragocamelus. 6. 



The horns are bent forwards ; the neck has a fhort mane ; on the moulders is a large 

 tufted hump 5 the tail is long, and is terminated with flowing hairs. Schreber, v. t. eclxii. 



Antilope 



