8  MR.  E.  T.  BENNETT  ON  THE  M'HORR  ANTELOPE, 
Antilope  ruficoUis,  Cretzschm.  ;  Ham.  Smith  in  Griffith's  Anim.  Kingd.  iv.  p.  205. 
&  V.  sp.  822. 
Hah.  in  Nubia  et  Kordofan. 
The  M'horr  is  regarded  in  the  kingdom  of  Marocco  as  an  exceedingly  rare  animal, 
and  Mr.  Willshire  states  that  the  one  earliest  obtained  by  him  was  the  first  individual 
of  the  race  which  had  been  seen  in  Mogadore.  It  is  highly  esteemed,  according  to 
Mr.  Drummond  Hay,  on  account  of  its  producing  the  bezoars,  so  precious  in  oriental 
medicine,  and  which  are  known  in  Marocco  as  the  Baid-al-Mhorr,  or  Eggs  of  the 
M'horr.  Mr.  Hay  conjectures  that  Baid-Mhorr  may  possibly  be  the  source  whence, 
rather  than  from  the  Persian  Pazahar,  the  name  of  Bezoar  has  sprung.  It  is  pretended 
that  two  of  these  calculous  concretions  are  met  with  in  the  intestines  of  every  individual 
of  the  race ;  but  none  were  found  in  that  which  died  in  the  Society's  collection,  and 
which,  as  is  stated  by  Mr.  Spooner  and  Mr.  LangstafF,  who  examined  it  after  death, 
agreed  in  its  visceral  anatomy  with  the  Antelopes  in  general.  Mr.  Spooner's  notes  of 
this  examination  are  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Society. 
PLATE  I. 
Antilope  Mhorr. 
