ALGAZEL. 
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Bassora, is the native region of the leucoryx, 
Mr. Pennant relates from a paper which he found 
in the British museum, that Shah Sultahn Hous- 
sein kept some of this species as curiosities, in a 
park, at the distance of eight leagues fro nr his 
capital. A fossil horn from Siberia has been sus- 
pected, by Dr. Pallas, to have been produced on 
the head of a leu c oryx. 
Algazel, 
There appears to be a considerable resemblance* ? 
both in size and other particulars, between the al- 
gazel and leucoryx. But the horns of the alga* 
zel, though long, slender, and nearly upright, as 
well as the horns of the leucoryx, differ, however, 
from those of the latter animal, in being gently 
arched, not backwards, but towards each other. 
They are always annulated ; but the inequalities 
produced by the rings on the surface of the horn 
are less remarkable in some than in others. The 
breast and the buttocks of this animal are white ; 
the rest of its body is red. 
India, Persia, Egypt, and Ethiopia, are the 
countries which produce the algazel. It is a gre- 
garious animal. Along a plain it moves slowly ; 
but climbs the sides of hills with great vigour 
and velocity. It is extremely shy and "timid ; yet, 
when taken alive, is easily tamed. Autumn is its 
season of love, and spring, of parturition. The 
oriental bezoar, a concretion once highly valu- 
ed for its supposed medical qualities, strongly 
odorous, and highly aromatic, was formerly 
thought to be obtained only from this animal. The 
bezoar, however, is at present regarded as a con- 
cretion, not peculiar to any one animal, but formed 
within many other animals of the East, and even 
of Europe. 
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