GUINEA ANTELOPE. 
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This beautiful little animal is the Moschu^ 
Grimmia, of Linnaeus ; the African Forest 
Goat, of Ray ; the Chevrotain d'Afrique, of 
Brisson ; the Antilope Grimmia, of Pallas; 
the Guinea Antelope, of Pennant ; and the 
Grimm, Guinea Antelope, or Grimm Goat, 
of Buffon. By this last appellation, alone, 
' BufFon ventures to assert, is the animal known 
to the naturalists ; " which," says he, as 
,we are ignorant of the name given to it in it'sr 
native country, we shall adopt. There is a 
figure of it in the German Ephemerides, which 
has been copied in the Academy Colle6lion, 
Dr. Herman Grimm was the first who men-' 
tioned this animal; and what he says con- 
cerning it was copied by Mr. Ray, and after- 
wards by all the nomenclators. 
In a castle, near the Cape of Good Hope,'* 
'says Dr. Herman Nicholas Grimm, *' I saw 
|a very singular species of Wild Goat. It w^as 
©f an obscure ash-colour. On the top of it's 
head 
