COLLECTION OF MAMMALIA. 



Museum by M. Baillon. The second is the red- 

 deer of Cayenne, of which we have specimens 

 of the two races, differing in size. The lower 

 part of the case is occupied by the bubalus, or 

 Barbary cow, and the caama of the Cape ; and 

 with them begins the numerous genus of ante- 

 lopes, of which we have twenty-two species. 



In the seventh case is the Barbary antelope 

 (antilope dorcas), a species celebrated for the 

 elegance of its form and the sweetness of its 

 countenance. They live in innumerable herds in 

 the north of Africa, and are the usual food of 

 lions and panthers. In the eighth case, which 

 is on the other side of the door, are the steen- 

 bock, the duiker or plunging goat of the Cape, 

 so called from its habit of darting head down- 

 wards into the covers where it lives in small 

 herds ; the stone-leaper, the gries-bock in its dif- 

 ferent ages, and the woolly antelope of M. Cuvier. 

 All these were procured by M. Delalande. 



The pasan of Buffon (antelope oryx) is in the 

 ninth case. Its size, colour, straight annulated 

 horns, and the contrary direction of the hair on 

 its back and neck, exactly agree with the de- 

 scription given us by the ancients of the uni- 

 corn (i). By the side of the pasan we see the 



(1) M. Cuvier is of opinion, that the description, which the ancients 

 have given us of the unicorn, is that of a pasan, which had lost one of its 



