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VERTEBRATA. 
THE EQUITOON. 
tarica, is the Cohis of Strabo. It lives in herds among the Altai' and Ural mountains, and wanders 
from place to place in search of food. The body is fawn above and white beneath. When the 
flock reposes, one of their number keeps guard, and the males defend the young from the wolves 
and foxes. At some seasons the males have a strong musky smell. These animals are easily 
domesticated Avhen taken young, and do not in that condition show any disposition to stray away 
with the wild ones. They are the only true species of Antilope found in Europe. 
The Indian Saiga, S. ccrvicapra, is fawn above and white beneath, with a brown line upon 
the flanks.. It is found in India. 
The GoiTRED Antilope, Dzeren, Whang Yang, or Yellow Goat, Antilope ffutturosa, and 
the GoA or Ragoa, Procapra picticauda of Gray, are both of Thibet. 
The Reh-Boc or Rhee-Boc, or Peele, is five feet long, and two and a half high ; the hair is 
woolly, and the color an ashy-gray.' Its form is light and graceful, and it runs swiftly with long- 
strides, moving close to the ground ; it lives in small families on the sides of hills, and is common 
in Southern Africa. 
The Inghalla, Riet-Boc, or Reed-Buck:, is of a deep reddish fawn-color ; it lives in pairs or 
small families, frequenting the reedy borders of mountain streams. It is found in South Africa, 
but at some distance from the Cape. 
An animal called Roode Rhee-Boc, or Red Roebuck, Antilope fulvo-rufula, is found in the 
same regions as the preceding, and is probably a variety of that species. 
The Wanto or Nagor, Antilope redunca^ is four feet long, two feet four inches high ; the color 
a fawn or pale red. It is found at Goree, in Western Africa. This, too, is probably a variety of 
the Riet-Boc. • ' 
The BoHOR, A. Bohor, is also regarded as a variety of the same by Dr. Gray. 
The Equitoon or Kob, A. adenota, is of a pale-brown color, lives in small herds on th^ Gam- 
bia, and resembles the gazelles. 
The Lechee,* A. lechee, is of a pale-brown color above, and white benear^, and is nearly as 
large as the water-buck. It lives in Southern Africa along the River Zouga. 
* This species is spoken of as below by Livingstone in his " Travels ;" the country where it was met with, about 
latitude twenty degrees north and longitude twenty-three degrees east, seeming to be a ptiradiSe of wild animals: 
" We found the elephants in prodigious numbers on the southern bank. They came to drink by night, and after 
having slaked their thirst — in doing which they threw large quantities of water over themselves, and are heard, while 
enjoying the refreshment, screaming with delight — they evince their horror of pitfalls by setting off in a straight line 
to the desert, and never diverge till they are eight or ten miles off. They are sn^aller here than in the countries far- 
ther south. At the Limpopo, for instance, they are upward of twelve feet high ; here, ohly eleven ; farther north we 
