MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope. 309 



Antilope Tragocamelus. Pallas, mifc. zool. 5. Spic. zool. 1. 9. xii. 13. n. 6. Erxlcb. mamm. 

 279.— Biggd. Mandefloe, voy. in Harris's coll. of voy. i. 775. — Quadruped from Bengal. Parfons, 

 in Phil. Tranf. N J . 476. p. 465. t. 3. f. 9. D°. abrid. xi. 893. t. 6. — Indoftan Antilope. Penn. hift. 

 of .quad, n. 26. . 



•Inhabits India. — This animal refembies the Camel in the reverfed arch of its neck, and in its man- 

 ner of kneeling down ; it is near five feet high, when meafured to the top of the hump. The hair 

 is foft, fhort, fmooth, and light afh coloured, in fome parts dufky, beneath the breaft and under the 

 tail it is white, and on the fore-head is a black fpot of a rhomboid figure ; the tail is about twenty- 

 two inches long, and is terminated with longrfh hairs ; on the lower part of the cheft the ikin hangs 

 loefe like the dewlap of a cow, and is covered with longifh hair ; the hinder parts of the body re- 

 ferable thofe.cf an Afs.; the limbs are {lender ; the horns are about feven inches long. 



083 j. Nylgau. — 7. Antilope pitta. 7. 



The horns are bent forwards-; the neck and part of the back has a ftiort mane; the 

 fore part of the throat has a long tuft of black hairs ; the tail is long, and tufted at 

 •the end. Hunter, in Phil. Tranf. lxi. 170. t. v. 



Antilope pitta, or painted Antelope. Schreber, v. t. eclxiii. A. B. Pallas, fpic. zool. xii. 14. 



n. 7. — Antilope albipes. Erxleb. mam. '280 White-footed Antilope. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 27. 



pi. vii. 



-Inhabits India. — This fpecies is four feet and ah inch high at the flioulder. The male is of a dark 

 gj-ey colour, with fhort horns ; thefe are triangular and diftant at their bafes, and blunt at the ends, 

 which bend a little forwards; there is a large white fpot on the neck, juft above the tuft of hair, an- 

 other between the fore legs, one on each fide behind the flioulder joint, one on each fore foot, and 

 two on each hind foot, above the hoof : The female has no horns ; is of a pale brown colour ; with 

 two white, and three black bars on the fore part of each foot immediately above the hoofs : In both, 

 the neck and part of the back have a fhort black mane, and the long tail is tufted at the end with 

 black hairs ; the ears of both are large, and fimilarly marked with two tranfverfe black ftripes ; and 

 both have a long tuft of black hairs on the fore part of the neck or throat, about the middle. This 

 animal is ufually very gentle and eafily tamed, but fometimes the male is very vicious ; they have 

 bred in England ; the female is fuppofed to go nine months with young, and brings two at a birth. 

 The name Nyl T ghau, ufed in India, fignifies Blue, or Grey Bulls. 



684 8. Saiga. — 8. Antilope Saiga, 8. 



The horns are pale and almoft tranfparent, diftant at th*e bafes, and bent in form of a 

 lyre *, having each three curvatures ; the nofe is very cartilaginous, much arched, 

 thick, and feems truncated at the end. Pallas, mifc. zool. 6. Spic. zool. xii. 14. n. 8. and 



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* In defcrib'mg the horn's of the fpecies of this genus, from the peculiarities of which fome of the 

 moft flriking fpecific characters are derived, Dr Gmelin, in feveral, employs the term lyratus, or bent 

 in form of an ancient lyre, that is receding in the middle, approaching towards the fummits, and 

 again receding from each other — T. 



