CERVINE ANTELOPE. 3S3 



Academy, where it is called by the title of Bar- 

 barij CoiV, Vache dc Barbark. The specimen de- 

 scribed by the Academicians seems to have been a 

 very large one, since it is said to have been of the 

 size of a cow. The learned Dr. Caius, who flou- 

 rished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, has given 

 a good description of this animal under the name 

 of Biiselaphus, His description was transmitted 

 to Gesner, and may be found in that authors 

 work on quadrupeds. Mr. Pennant's ligure seems 

 to be taken from a young or half grown specimen 

 of the female, in which the horns had not arrived 

 at their full size. Mr. Pennant, hovvcver, is of 

 opinion, that the animal described by Dr. Pallas 

 and Mr. AUamand, under the title of Antilope 

 Bubalis, and which, as before-mentioned, is in- 

 troduced into the present pubUcation, is in reality 

 a difterent species, which he descjibes in the fol- 

 lowing manner, under the title of Senegal An- 

 telope. 



Antelope with horns almost close at the base, 

 a little above bending greatly ; then approach 

 again towards the ends, and recede from each 

 other towards the points, which bend backwards ; 

 the distance in the middle six inches and a half; 

 above that four inches ; at the point six ; length 

 seventeen inches ; circumference at the bottom 

 eight ; surrounded with fifteen prominent rings ; 

 the ends smooth and sharp : the head large and 

 clumsy, eighteen inches long : ears seven : head 

 and body of a light reddish brown : down the 

 hind part of the neck a narrow black list : rump 



