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short thick at the base, very slightly annulated 

 to a small distance beyond, and are sharp-pointed, 

 smooth, and black : the limbs are slender ; the tail 

 rather short, blackish above, white below, and is 

 somewhat flocky or loose-haired ; but what prin- 

 cipally distinguishes this species is an upright 

 pointed tuft of strong black hairs rising from the 

 top of the forehead, between the horns, to the 

 height of about two inches and a half : the sinus 

 lachrymalis, as in many other antelopes, is ex- 

 tremely conspicuous. 



The Grimm is found in several parts of Africa, 

 extending, according to Dr. Pallas and Mr. Pen- 

 nant, from Guinea to the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 residing principally in places overgrown with 

 brushwood, into which it may retire on the ap- 

 proach of danger. In tlie Leverian Museum is a 

 very beautiful specimen of this animal, which is 

 elegantly figured in the Museum Leverianum. 

 and is introduced into tlie present work. 



* Dr. Gmelin, in his edition of the Systema Naturae, speaks of 

 the horns as being eighteen inches long ; probably mistaking Mr. 

 Pennant's expression, ''height j8 i??cltesy by which he means the 

 height of the animal itself.. 



V. II. r. II. 



