3i8 - MAMMALIA. PECORA. Antelope, 



7 01 25. Grimm. — 23. Antilope Grimmia. 19. 



Has fhort, ffender, ftraight, fhar-p pointed horns, which are furrowed their whole length, 

 and llightly annulated at the bafes ; a large lachrymal cavity under each eye, and a 

 tuft of black hairs between the horns. 



Antilope Grimmia, having ftraight compreffed conical horns, with longitudinal wrinkles, as if 

 much worn, and a black lachrymal cavity below each eye. Syft. nat.ed. Gmel. 191. n. 19. Pall, 

 mile. zool. 8. 10. t. 1. 3. 4. fig. 3, a. b. Spic. zool. i. 38. t. 3. xii. 18. n. 19. Schreber, v. t. eclx. 

 Erxleb. mam. 276. 11. 7 — Mofchus Grimmia. Syft. nat. ed. xii. i. 92. n. 2. — Capra Grimmia. 

 Syfl. nat. ii. 51-. vi. 14. n. 10. x. 70. n. 10. — Tragulus africanus. BrifE quad. 97. n. 4. — Grimm. 

 Mifc. nat.curiof.dec. ii..a. 4. p. 131. f. 13. Raj. quad. 80. Klein, quad. 19. Sm. Buff", vii. 14.. 

 pi. excix.^ — Guinea Antilope. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 24. Lev. muf... 



Inhabits Guinea.? — This is a very elegant animal, about eighteen inches high at the moulder ; the 

 horns of the male are about three inches long, and the females are faid to be hornlefs ; the colour is 

 variable, fome being of a bright bay colour, while others are brown, mixed with afh colour, and tinged 

 with yellow ; the belly is white, and the tail, which is fhort, is white beneath, and black on the up- 

 per part : Between the horns is a fmall erec"V pointed tuft of black hairs ; a black ftripe runs down 

 the middle of the face ; under the chin is a fmall hairy wart, the ears are large, and have three lon- 

 gitudinal deprefiions on the outfide ; on each fide, between the eyes and the nofe, is a large depref-- 

 fion, always moift, and containing a fmall quantity of a vifcid gummy humour, which foon hardens 

 and becomes black ; the legs are afh coloured, remarkably flender and elegant, the fore legs being 

 adorned with a black band as far as above the knees, and having only a flight excrefcence inftead of. 

 fpurious hoofs .. 



7 a2 - 2.6. Giievei. — 24. Anhlope pygmaea. 20. 



Has very fhort, conically pointed, twilled horns, which are wrinkled at the bafesa 

 Pall. fpic. zool. xii. 18. n. 20. 



Hirfche ihre Koenige, or King of the Harts, Bofman, voy. to Guki. .252.— Cervus perpufillus, 

 f. Cervula africana. Seba, muf. i. 70. t. 43. f. 3. — Guevei-cajor. Adanfon, voy. 207. Sm. Buff. 



vii. 27. D°. Fr. ed. xii. 315. t. 43. f. 2. — Royal Antilope. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 25 Petite 



biche. Des Marchais, i. 312. 



Jnhabits Senegal, Guinea, and the hotteft parts of Africa. — This very elegant little animal is only 

 about nine inches high, and yet is fo exceedingly active that it is faid to leap over a twelve feet wall ; 

 it is of a reddifh brown colour, with jet black horns about two inches long, the females having no 

 horns ; the ears are broad, and the legs are fcarcely bigger- than goofe-quillf . It is eafily made very 

 tame and familiar, but is fo extremely tender as not to- bear being transported to Europe. . 



703 27. Wood Antelope. — 2$.. Antilope fylvallc a. 27. 



The horns are fmooth, fomewhat fpirally twilled, annulated at the bafes, and marked 

 with feveral longitudinal ribs, the ends being taper, and fharp pointed. Sparrm. in 

 act. Stock. 1780, iii. n. 7. t. 7. Schreber, v. t. eclvii. B. 



Wood Goat, or Bofch bock. Sparrm. voy. ii. pi. 2. f. 2. 



Inhabits 



