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anatomy, the queftion is commonly to be decided 
with certainty. 
From the external marks alone, I fufpeifted, or 
rather believed, the Nyl-ghau to be a peculiar and 
diftindt fpecies. Some of my acquaintance thought 
it a deer. The permanent horns convinced me that 
it was not. Others thought it an antelope. The 
horns, and the fize of the animal, made me fufped: 
that it was not^ It had fo much of the lhape of 
deer, efpecially the female, that I could not fup- 
pofe it to be of the fame fpecies with our black 
cattle.. In rutting time, one of the males was put 
into a paddock with a female of the red- deer : but 
nothing like attradfion or attention was obferved be- 
tween them. At length, in confequence of tlie 
death of one of them, I was afllired by my brother, 
who didedted it, and who has diire< 5 led with great 
attention almod every known quadrupede, that the 
Nyl-ghau, is a new fpecies 
History. Of late years feveral of this fpecies, 
both male and female, have been brought to Eng- 
land. The firft were fent from Bombay, by Gov. 
Cromelen, as a prefent to Lord Clive : they arrived in 
Auguft 1767. They were male and female, and 
continue to breed every year. Afterwards two were 
brought over, and prefented to the Q^en by Mr. 
Sullivan. From her Majefty's delirc to encourage 
every ufeful or curious enquiry in natural knowledge, 
* Mr. Pennant, whofe love of natural hiftory heightens the en- 
joymenit cf an insdependent fortune, in his &ynopfts, publifbecl 
Jince thfe paper was written, claifes this animal (IVhite-footedy 
p. 2^.) as a fpecies of the Antilap^i but he now thinks it 
Wlongs to aaothet GVwzif, aad will clafa It accordingly in hia 
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