STRIPED ANTELOPE. 
without any title or name \ the second I had 
from M. Baurhis, Commissary of the Navy, 
imder the name of the Condoma of the Cape 
of Good Hope; which name I have adopted, 
because the animal has not hitherto been de- 
scribed or denominated. From the length, 
thickness, and especially the double flexion, of 
the horns, the Condoma makes a near approach 
to the Strepsiceros of Cains. The figure, and 
even all the dimensions of the horns, are almost 
perfedlly the same. From this correspondence 
in the size and figure of the head and horns, 
we may presume that the Condoma and 
Strepsiceros of Caius, are the same animal ; 
especially when the following -refiet^ions are 
attended to — I. Caias, it is obvious, was de- 
ceived, when he made this animal the Strep- 
siceros of the ancients ; for the Sirepsiceros 
of the ancients is unquestionably the Antelope, 
whose head is very different from that of the 
Stag: now Caius tells us, that the head of the 
Strepsiceros resembled that of the Stag; and, 
therefore, it could not be the Strepsiceros oi' 
tlie ancients. 2. Caius's animal, like the 
Condoma, had thick horns, above three feet 
long, covered with rugosities, instead of rings 
or 
