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ANTELOPE. 
i Be&oar* 
16. Indian. 
Pasen,capricerva. Keemfer.Aman. La Gazelle du Bezoar. Brijfort 
exot. 398. quad. 44. 
Cornu ignotum. Gefner quad. Algazel. De Buffon, xii.211. tab. 
309. xxxiii. 1, 2. 
La Gazelle. Belon obf. 120. Capra bezoartica. C. cornibus 
jpwz. hi/i. ACgypt. I. 232. tab. xiv. arcuatis totis annulatis, gula bar- 
Animal bezoarticum. Ran fyn. bata, Lin. fyjl. 96. Br. Muf. 
quad. 80. AJhm. Muf. 
A. with very long, flender, upright horns, bend¬ 
ing at the upper part inward towards each other ^ 
fome are much annulated, others fmoother: fize of 
a goat: red, mixed with afh color. 
Inhabits the inhofpitable and rough mountains 
of Laar in Terfia: very fwift arid timid: never 
defcends into the plains : is one of the animals 
which produce the Bezoar *, celebrated by the 
Orientalijis as an alexipharmic. Found alfo in 
jEgypt. 
Le Coudous. DeBufon , xii. 3J7. Nilgaux or gray oxen ? Bernier , 
tab. 47. iv. 47. 
Antilope oryx. Pallas Mifcel. 9. PacalTe. Voy. Congo. Churchill's 
Spied. 15. Coll. I. 623. Br.Muf. AJhm. Muf 
A. with thick ftrait horns, marked with two pro¬ 
minent fpiral ribs near two-thirds of their length, 
fmooth towards their end ^ fome are above two feet 
long : thofe at the BritiJIo Mufeum , with part of the 
fkin adhering, are black : the color of the hair on 
* According to fa-vernier, ii« 154. it is alfo found in Cows* 
Goats and Apes. 
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