HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 97 



The CHEVROTAIN and MEMINNA. 



The Chevrotain, or little Guinea Deer, is the fmallell 

 of all the Antelope kind, the lead of all cloven-footed 

 quadrupeds, and, we may add, the mod beautiful. Its 

 fore legs, at the fmalleft part, are not much thicker than 

 a tobacco-pipe ; it is not more than feven inches in 

 height, and about twelve from the point of the nofe to 

 the infertion of the tail; its ears are broad; and its 

 horns, which are flraight, and fcarcely two inches long, 

 are black and mining as jet; the colour of the hair is a 

 reddifh-brown ; in fame a beautiful yellow, very fliort 

 and glofly. 



Thefe elegant little creatures are natives of Senegal 

 and the hotter! parts of Africa ; they are likewife found 

 in India, and in many of the illands adjoining to that 

 van: continent. 



In Ceylon, there is an animal of this kind called Me- 

 minna y which is not larger than a Hare, but perfectly re- 

 fembling a Fallow-deer. It is of a grey colour; the fides 

 and haunches are fpotted and barred with white ; its ears 

 are long and open ; and its tail fhort, 



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