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divided or double beard ; with hairs on the sides 

 and body short : on the top of the neck longer, 

 and a little erect. The whole under part of the 

 neck and shoulders covered with coarse hairs, not 

 less than fourteen inches long. Beneath the hairs, 

 on every part, was a short genuine wool, the ru- 

 diments of a fleecy cloathing : the colour of the 

 breast, neck, back, and sides, a pale ferruginous. 

 Tail very short. Horns close at their base, re- 

 cur vated ; twenty-five inches long ; eleven in cir- 

 cumference in the thickest place ; diverging, and 

 bending outwards ; their points being nineteen 

 inches distant from each other." 



Mr. Pennant observes, that the learned Dr. 

 Kay, or Caius, gives a good description of this 

 animal, from a specimen brought into England 

 from Barbary, in the year 1561. Dr. Kay named 

 it Tragelaphus, on a supposition of its being the 

 same with the Tragelaphus of Pliny. The figure 

 published by Mr. Pennant, and which is here re- 

 peated, is from a very fine print, by Basan, taken 

 from a painting by Oudry, of the living animal in 

 the French king's menagery. 



