334 



STRIPED ANTELOPE. 



a dirty white : on each knee, and above the fet- 

 locks, a dusky mark : hoofs small : tail a foot 

 long, covered with coarse black hairs, which 

 hang far beyond the end. Length of a whole 

 skin seven feet. Inhabits Senegal, where the 

 French call it La grande Vache brune." 



It is to this animal that Mr. Pennant supposes 

 Dr. Caius's description in Gesner to refer, as well 

 as that of the Koba of Buifon. 



STRIPED ANTELOPE. 



Antilope Strepsiceros. ^. cornibus spiralibus carinaiis svhriigosis, 

 corpore strigis tran&versis Sf spinali albis. Lin, Syst. Nat. 

 GmeJ.p. 192. 



Rufous-grey Antelope^ with compressed spirally ridged horns } 

 white longitudinal dorsal and transverse lateral stripes. 



Strepsiceros, Gem. Quadr. p. 295 333. ic. 31. 



Bos Strepticeros. Aldr. bisulc. p. ^6S.Jig. p. 369. 



Le Condoma. Buff. 12. p. 301. pL 3g. f. i, 2. fthehornsj 

 SuppL 6. p. 124. pi. 13. 



Striped Antelope. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 88. 



The Striped Antelope is a native of the country 

 about the Cape of Good Hope, where it is said to 

 be called Coedoes. It is one of the larger kinds of 

 Antelopes, measuring near nine feet in length, 

 and being four feet high. Its colour is a rufous- 

 grey with the face brown marked by two white 

 lines, each proceeding from the corner of the eye, 

 and uniting in a pointed form on the top of the 

 nose, which is smooth and black : down the fore- 

 head runs a broad dusky stripe, and a streak of 



