148 RUMINANTIA. 



the proper vagina is a connexion of the two sides, hy a membrane like 

 a thread. The continuation of the uterine horn with the broad liga- 

 ment runs across the psoas muscle, and is continued to the side of the 

 belly. The round ligament is only a small doubling of the peritoneum, 

 which does not reach so far as the abdominal ring. 



There are fore-teeth in the lower jaw only. The horns are like the 

 cow's 1 . The female has no horns. 



All along the belly there is an elastic ligament which covers the 

 abdominal muscles, and is thickest towards the pubis. 



Ring-horned Antelope (Antilope cervicapra). 



Intestinal Canal. 



ft. in. 

 From the mouth to the stomach .... 20 



From the stomach to the caecum .... 44 



From the caecum to the anus 16 



Length of the caecum 9 



Length of the Body. 



From the horns to the anus 3 3 



An Antelope, from the Queen. 



(Described by Buffon, vol. xii. p. 215. Comes from Barbary 2 .) 



This animal was smaller than our common doe, more compact and 

 shorter leg'd : dark brown on the back, becoming rather lighter towards 

 the belly ; not gradually lost in the white of the belly, but at once. 

 Also white on the inside of the fore- and hind-legs, extending up the 

 under side of the neck, and also to the root of the tail, terminating in a 

 line up the posterior edge of the thighs. 



Horns long, spiral, diverging, with rings or circular ridges, but which 

 do not go round, having a spiral line from the tip to the setting on of 

 the horn where these rings terminate 3 . The hair is short and straight, 

 of a light brown in the body of the hair, but dark at its tip : it is a flat 

 hair in its body, but round at the tip. 



Just below the eye is an opening [suborbital sinus] of considerable 

 depth, which has a number of ducts opening into it at its bottom, 



1 [That is, they have a sheath of true horn, and are not entirely bone, like the deer's.] 



2 [The species here described, and figured in pi. 35, is the ' common antelope of 

 Pennant ' {Antilope cervicapra, Pall.), with the characters of which Hunter's brief 

 description agrees.] 3 [No. 3666, Osteol. Series.] 



