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shoots of trees, which gives their flesh an excel- 

 lent flavour. This is to be understood of those 

 which are taken in the chace ; for those which 

 are fattened iir houses are far less delicious. The 

 flesh of some species is said to taste of musk, 

 which perhaps depends on the quaUties of the 

 plants they feed upon. 



. ' ^ This preface (says Mr. Pennant) was thought 

 necessary, to point out the difference in nature 

 between this and the Goat kind, with which most 

 systematic writers have classed the Antelopes : 

 but the Antelope forms an intermediate genus, a 

 link between the Goat and the Deer; agreeing 

 with the former in the texture of the horns, which 

 have a core in them, and are never xast; and with 

 the latter in elegance of form and swiftness. " 



To tlie above introduction it may be added, 

 that in detailing the particular history of the An- 

 telopes, very little more can be done than copy- 

 ing the descriptions already given by Dr. Pallas, 

 Mr. Pennant, Mr. AUamand, &c. I must, however, 

 acknowledge myself not entirely convinced that 

 every animal described in the following enumera- 

 tion is in reality a distinct species. 



