MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope. 315 



difh brown colour, with a narrow black lift down the hind part of the neck; the rump i- dirty white; 

 there is a dulky mark on each knee, and above each fetlock joint ; the tail is about a foot long, and 

 is covered with longifh black hairs. 



18. Gnou. — 16. Antilope Gnu. 25. 



The horns are thick, rough, and bent much forwards at the bafe, then fuddenly turned 

 backwards, hooked, fmooth, and diflant at the ends : The neck has a mane. 

 Sparrmann, in aft. Stock, ann. 1779, i. n. 7. t. 3. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 16. 



Gnu. Sparrman. voy. ii. pi. 2. — Bos Gnou. Zimmerman. 372. journ. hiftor. 53. f. p. 54. Lev. 

 muf. 



Inhabits the country of the great Namaquas to the north of the Cape of Good Hope. — Feeds in 

 large flocks in the plains ; is exceedingly fierce, very fwift, and fights with its horns ; it frequently 

 drops on its knees, and runs quickly along in that pofture, furrowing the ground with its horns and 

 legs ; it is a lingular animal, having the body like a Hbrfe, with a thick bull-like head, elegant taper 

 legs like a Deer, and the lachrymal furrows of the Antelope tribe. It is about fix feet and a half 

 long, and three feet and a half high at the fhoulders ; of a dark nifty brown colour, the hairs being 

 fhort, fmooth, and tipt with white ; on the breaft and between the fore legs the hairs are long and 

 black ; the head is very large, thick, and clumfy, with a fquare mouth and broad flaps over the nof- 

 trils, having fhort ftiff hairs on both lips ; thefe on the under lip are intermixed with long briftles ; 

 on the lower part of the face, over the nofe, is a thick oblong brufh. of long, ftifF, black, reflected 

 hairs, on each fide of which the hairs are long, fiat, and pointing downwards ; on the chin and gul- 

 let is a long hanging beard, or bunch of white hairs; the neck is fhort, thick, fomewhat arched, and 

 has a ftrong, erect, alh coloured mane, which reaches from between the bonis to below the fhoul- 

 ders ; the tail is long, white, and flowing, like that of a Horfe; the feet have only one fpurious hoof 

 ou each. The females are provided with horns perfectly fimilar to thofe of the males, but in the 

 young animals they are quite ftraight. The fiefh is reckoned very good. . 



19. Pafan. — 17. Antilope Oryx. 14. 



Has ftraight, flender, diftinclly annulated horns, which taper to a point: The body and 

 fides are of a reddifh afh colour, having a raifed dufky line along the back, the hairs 

 of which, at the pofterior end, are reverfed. Pall. fpic. zool. xii. 16. n. 14. and p. tfi.. 

 Schreber, v. t. eclvii. - 



Antilope refticornis, or Straight-hcrned Antelope. Erxleb. mam. 272. n. 3. Pall, in nov. com, . 

 Petrop. xiii. 468. t. 10. f. 5. — Antilope bezoartica, or Bezoar Antelope. Pall. mifc. zool. 8. Spic. 

 zool. i. 14. — Gazella indica, or Indian Antelope. Raj. quad. 79. — Capra gazella africana, or Afri- 

 can Goat- antelope. HafTelqu. It. 283. — Capra gazella, or Goat Antelope. Syft. nat. ed. xii. i. g6. 

 n. 7. BrifT. quad. 67. — Oryx. Agathar. peripl. Plin. hift. nat. ii. c. 40. viii. c. 53. x. c. 73. Co- 

 Itunell. ruft. ix. c. 1. Martial, epigr. i. 13. Macrob. faturn. 3.^-Pafan. Sm. Buff. vi. 40S. D°„ 

 Fr. ed. xii. 212. t. 33. f. 3. Journ. hiftor. 56. — Egyptian Antilope.-. Penn.. hift. of quad. n. 19,. 

 Lev. muf. 



Inhabits Syria, Arabia, Perfia, India, Egypt, Ethiopia, and at the Cape of Good Hope. — Is about 

 the fize of a Fallow Deer ; the fkin of the individual examined by Mr Pennant was above fix feet fix , 



R r 2 inches 



