3i6 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope. 



inches long : The horns are near three feet long, ftraight, flender, annulated above half their length, 

 and the reft fmooth; the points are fharp, and about fourteen inches afunder;the face is white, with 

 a black fpot at the bafe of the horns, another on the middle of the face, and one on each fide reach- 

 ing from the eye to the throat, joining that on the face by a tranfverfe band of the fame colour; the 

 belly, rump, and legs are white ; the white colour of the belly is divided, on the fides, from the red- 

 difh am coloured upper parts, by a broad longitudinal dufky band, which reaches to the breaft; each 

 leg- is marked with a duiky fpot below the knee ,;- the tail is near two feet and a half long, and is co- 

 vered with longilli black hairs. This fpecies is named Gems bock, or Chamois, at the Cape, and is 

 fuppofed by.Dr Gmelin to be the Zebi of the facred writers. 



696 2.0. African Antelope. — r8. Ant Hope Oreotragus. .26. 



Has very ftraight, tapering, and fharp pointed horns, which are flightly wrinkled at the 

 bafes. Schreber, v. t. cclix. 



Inhabits Africa. — The head is reddifh, the upper parts of the body are greehifh yellow, and* the 

 under parts of a whitifh afh colour ; the tail is very fhort. 



697 -2;l. Algazel.— 19. Amtilope Gazella. 15. 



Has very long, wrinkled, (lender, upright, tapering, and fharp pointed horns, which 

 are flightly bent inwards at the ends. Pall. fpic. zool. xii. 17. n. 15. 



Capra bezoardica, or Bezoar Goat. Syft. nat. ed. xii. 96. n. 9. — -Hircus bezoardicus. BrifT. quad. 

 6<j. n. 10. Aldrov. biiulc. 756. Major, Eph. nat. cur. dec. i. a. 8. p. 1. t. 1. Muf. brefl. t. 10. 

 f. 3. 4. Valent. muf. muleor. ed. ger. i. 193. t. 36. f. 2. 4. — Animal bezoarticum. Raj. quad. 

 80,— Animal ignatum. Geih. quad. 309. f. p. 38 — Gazella. Belon. obf. 120. Profp. alp. hift. 

 aegypt. 232. t. 14. — Bezoar Antilope. Penn. fyn.n. 15. — Algazel. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 21. 

 Buff". Fr. ed. xii. 211. t. 33. f. 1. 2. Sm. Buff", vi. 414. Br. muf. Afhm. muf. Lev. muf. 



Inhabits India, Perfia, even its northern parts, Egypt, and Ethiopia. — Runs fwiftly up hill, but ra- 

 .ther {lowly on- plain ground ; it is gregarious, and very eafily made tame. The general colour of the 

 fur is red, with a white breaft and belly. The real oriental Bezoar, which is of a greenifh and blu- 

 ifh colour, and when recent has a very powerful aromatic odour, is frequently found in the fourth 

 ftomach of this fpecies, chiefly in t-hofe of males and full grown animals, and more feldom in the fto- 

 mach of females or younger individuals. 



5q8 22. Leucoryx. — *2o. Antilope Leucoryx. it5. 



Has very long, flender, upright, taper, fharp pointed horns, very flightly bent back- 

 wards, and annulated at the bales : The body is of a milk white colour. Pall, fpic- 

 zool. xii. 17. n. 16. 



Gazella indica, having lingular horns. "Nov. com. Petrop. xiii. 470. t. 10. f. 5. — Oryx. Oppian. 

 cyneg. ii. v. 445 Leucoryx. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 20. pi. vi. 



'Inhabits the ifland of Gow Bahrein in the bottom of the Perfic Gulph near Baflbra. — This fpecies 

 is about the fize af a "Welih Runt ; or fmall Cow ; the head is large and broad, with a thick' broad 



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