..GUINEA ANTELOPE. 
in his last edition, BulFon says, " Messieurs 
Vosmaer, and Pallas, have given descriptions 
of this beautiful animal, and a good figure of 
it, which we have here copied. It is w^orthy 
of remark, that the horns of the Grimm, pre- 
served in the Royal Cabinet, bend a little for- 
ward at their points ; while those described by 
"Vosmaer, and Pallas, bend a little backwarcL 
The ears of the former are round at the extre^ 
mities ; but those of the latter terminate in a 
point. Is this a natural variety," demands 
Bufton, or an error in the drawing I The 
Grimm of Vosmaer, and Pallas, has the point 
of the nose black, a black band extending 
from the nose along the chanfrin, and ending 
at the tuft of hair placed on the top of the 
front. The head in the Royal Cabinet has 
not this band. These slight differences, how- 
ever, are not sufficient to constitute distin61: 
species. M. Vosmaer calls this animal the 
Small Beautiful Buck of Guinea ; probably, 
on account of it's elegance. But 1 shall retaiu 
the name. of Grimm ; because, under that ap- 
pellation, it is known to all the naturalists. 
<* This animal," M. Vosmiier remarks, 
*' was 
