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SffiMMERING’S ANTELOPE. 
Gcesella Smmmeringii. 
PLATE XXVIII. 
Antilope Sccmmexmg^i, RuppeVs Afrika Zool. Atlas, fol. IP, 
A VERY beautiful and delicately coloured animal, 
standing about two feet seven inches high at the 
shoulder, and in length about four feet and a half. 
The colour of the upper parts, outsides of the ears 
and legs, a delicate reddish-grey isabella colour; 
the lower parts, insides of the limbs and buttocks, 
pure white. The forehead extending along the ridge 
of the nose, deep brownish-black, with a pale line 
above each eye, and a darker streak from the lower ' 
angle of the eye to the nostril. Inhabits north eastern 
Africa. 
Another series of Antelopes have received from 
Major Smith the title of “ The Antelopine Group 
and that naturalist retains also the generic title of 
“ Antelope.” They are much allied to the last, but 
differing in some lesser modifications of form, as in 
the horns being scarcely ever lyrate, having no dark 
bands on the sides, &c. ; they are more decidedly 
