STRIPED 
ANTELOPE. 
or tubercles ; but the horns of the Strepsiceros 
of the ancients, or Antelope, are much thinner 
and shorter, having both rings and tubercles^ 
3. Though the horns of the Condoma in the 
Museum of the Marquis De Marigny, as well 
as those, which were brought from the King's 
Wardrobe, had been polished by fri6lion, it is 
easy to perceive that they never had rings. 
This fa6t is farther demonstrated by the horn 
sent to me by M. Baurhis, which had never 
been touched ; and yet it had only rugosities, 
like the He-Goat, and no rings, like the 
Antelope: now Caius himself tells us, that 
the horns of his Strepsiceros had rugosities 
only; hence this Strepsiceros is not that of 
the ancients, but the animal of which we 
.are here treating, and which possesses all 
the charadlers that Caius attributes to his. 
In examining the writings of travellers," adds 
BufFon, ** we have found nothing which ap- 
pxoache§ so near to the genuine idea of this 
animal, which is so remarkable for it's size, 
and particularly the largeness of it's horns, 
as the quadruped mentioned by Kolbcn, under 
the denomination of tlie Wild Goat of the 
Gape of Good Hope. 
This 
