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Aiif elopes with strait or nearly strait Horns, 



EGYPTIAN ANTELOPf:. 



Antilope Oryx. A. cornibus rectissimis suhulatis argute rvgosis, 



corpore griseOf striga dorsali tiigrkante, pilo postico contrario, 



Lin. Svst. Nat. Gmel. p, 189. 

 Grey Antelope, with black and white face, dusky dorsal stripe, 



and very long, strait, tapering, sharply- aainulated horns. 

 Capra Gazella. C. cornibus teretibiis rectissimis longissimis, hasi 



annnlatis: Lin. Syst, Nat. p, 96. 

 Le Pasan. Bit^. 12. p. 212.pl. 33. f* 3. and Suppl. 6. p. ij^* 



pi 17. 



^Egyptian Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i.p.JS' 



The Egyptian Antelope, or Pasan, is more easily 

 distinguished than many others in this extensive 

 race; the horns affording a character perfectly 

 clear and constant : they are almost entirely strait, 

 nearly three feet in length, very slender in pro- 

 portion to their length, annulated at the lower 

 part or towards the base, the remainder smooth, 

 and gradually tapering to the point. The size of 

 the animal is somewhat superior to that of a deer. 

 Its natural history has been of late years greatly 

 elucidated by the observations of Dr. Forster and 

 Mr. Klockner, whose accounts have been copied 

 by the Count de Buffon in his sixth supplemental 

 volume, as well as by Mr. Pennant in his His- 

 tory of Quadrupeds. From these accounts it cip- 

 pears that the Pasan is nearly four feet high, 

 measured from the top of the shoulders to the 

 ground ; that it is found about the Cape of Good 



