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254 guldensted’s antelope, and gnu; 
have the knees protected by a covering of long 
hairs. 
It is an inhabitant of Gambia and Senegal, in 
Africa ; one of the most timid animals of the kind ; 
when pursued, it hesitates not to throw itself down 
rocks and precipices. 
Guldensted's antelope. 
This species was first described by Mr. Gul** 
densted, in the Petersburgh Transactions. He in- 
forms us that it was found in Persia, between the 
Caspian and the Black seas ; that its size and 
general appearance is that of a roe buck ; that 
it is of a gregarious nature, and feedsjprincipally 
on the artemisia pontica, or pontic wormwood. 
The horns are about thirteen inches long, and 
smooth at the tips, The colour of the animal is 
a cinereous brown above, with the belly and insides 
of the limbs, and a space surrounding the tail, 
white ; the tail is short and full of hair. On 
the fore part of the neck is a protuberance, but not 
so large as in the preceding species. The flesh of 
this animal is reckoned extremely good. 
Gnu* 
The form of this animal resembles partly the 
horse, partly the ox, and partly the stag. It is as 
large as a middle-sized horse ; the length of its 
body between five and six feet ; its height between 
four and five. Its neck, though neither so long 
nor so slender as the neck of a horse, is, however, 
longer and more slender than that of the ox, and 
adorned with a stiff erect mane. Its body displays 
the elegant proportions of the horse ; and its tail, 
though somewhat longer, is, like that of the horse* 
