HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 95 



The Common ANTELOPE. 



The Antelope, properly fo called, abounds in Barbary, 

 and in all the northern parts of Africa. — It is fomewhat 

 lefs than the Fallow-deer: Its horns are about fixteen 

 inches long, furrounded with prominent rings almoft to 

 the top, where they are twelve inches diftant from point 

 to point. The horns of the Antelope are remarkable for 

 a beautiful double flexion, which gives them the appear- 

 ance of the lyre of the ancients. The colour of the hair 

 on the back is brown, mixed with red ; the belly and in- 

 fide of the thighs, white ; and the tail (hort. 



The Barbary ANTELOPE 



is likewife common in all the northern parts of Africa, 

 in Syria, and Mefopotamia ; and feems to be a variety of 

 the laft-mentioned animal, which it ftrongly refembles; 

 only the two colours on the back are feparated from each 



