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hoofs. Tail thin, above brown like the back, beneath white, tip black; length 
about 14 inches. 
Horns rising backwards nearly in a line with the forehead, then turning 
upwards, strongly ringed; length along the curve about 26 inches. 
Female. Similar to male but hornless, and slightly smaller in size. 
Hab. Senegal and Gambia. 
The Sing-sing of Western Africa appears to have first come to the notice 
of European naturalists in the year 1831, when a living pair of this Antelope 
were brought to England, of which one, we are told, went to the Surrey 
Zoological Gardens, and the other to the Zoological Society's collection in 
Regent’s Park. In the ‘ Report of the Council of the Zoological Society,’ 
read at the Anniversary Meeting in 1832, this animal is entered in the list of 
mammals exhibited in the Society's Gardens (drawn up, we believe, by 
Mr. Bennett) as the ‘“Sing-sing Deer (Cervus sing-sing).” In Waterhouse’s 
Catalogue of the Mammals in the Society’s Museum published in 1838, the 
same animal (then in the Museum) is entered more correctly as “ Antilope 
sing-sing,” but the specific term is attributed to “ Ogilby.” In neither case, 
however, was any description added to the specific name. It is curious also 
that Ogilby, to whom the specific term ‘“ sing-sing” is attributed by Water- 
house, in his article upon Antelopes published in 1834 in the first volume of 
the ‘ Penny Cyclopedia,’ did not use this name, but referred the animal in 
question, of which a very fair figure was given, to the “‘ Koba” of Buffon, and 
called it ‘‘ Antilope koba.” Odgilby appears to have taken the same view in 
his remarks on certain Antelopes published in the Zoological Society’s 
‘Proceedings’ for 1836; but the ‘“ Koba” of Buffon, as we have already 
shown (Vol. I. p. 60), is a name of very uncertain application, and certainly 
not to be attributed to this species. 
Gray, who likewise adopted the specific name “ sing-sing” for this Antelope, 
appears first to have published a description of it under that name in the 
letterpress of the ‘ Knowsley Menagerie’ in 1850, and in the ‘ Proceedings’ of 
the Zoological Society for the same year. In the meanwhile, however, the 
name Antilope unctuosa had been bestowed upon it by Laurillard, in the 
first volume of the ‘ Dictionnaire Universelle d’Histoire Naturelle,’ published 
in 1847, from a specimen living in the Menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes. 
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