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Show 192 MAMMALIA. Lion and Panther. The soft expression of its eye furnishes numerous images to the Arabian poets. .11. corinna, Gm.; Buff. XII, :xxvii. (The Corinna.) Only differs in the horns, which are much more slender. It is per· haps a mere variety of sex. .11. kevella, Gm.; Buff. XII, cclxxv. (The Kevel.) Also very similar; but its horns are compressed at the base, and have a greater number of rings. The only mark in which it is even pretended that it differs from the .flhu of Krempfer, or the Tseyrain of the Persians and Turks, (.fl.. subgutturosa, Gm.,) is a slight swelling under the throat of the latter. .fl. gutturosa, Pall.; Deseren of the Mongoles ; Hoang Yang, or Yellow Goat of the Chinese; Schreb. CCLXXV. Nearly similar colours, and the same kind of horns as the Gazelle pro· perly so called; but it is nearly as large as the C. dama, and there is a considerable protuberance in the male produced by the larynx, and a large pouch under the belly. The female has no horns. This species lives in herds, in the barren plains of cen· tral Asia, and avoids both the forest and water. .fl. euchore, Forster; the Pouched Gazelle; Buff. Supp. VI, pl. xxi. (The Springbock.) The south of Africa is nlled with herds of this species. It is larger than the Gazelle, but of the same form and colour; it is distinguished by a fold of the skin of the croup covered with white hairs, which opens and enlarges at every bound the animal makes. Jl. sa'iga, Pall.; Colus of Strabo ; Schreb. CCLXXVI. (The Sa'iga.) Which inhabits the heaths of the south of Poland and Russia, has horns similar to the Gazelle, but yellowish and transparent. It is as large as the Deer, fawn coloured in sum· mer, and of a whitish grey in winter; its cartilaginous, thick and vaulted muzzle, with very expanded nostrils, compels it to retrograde in feeding. The herd sometimes consists of more than ten thousand individuals. Jl. dama, Pall., Acad. of Berl. 1824, pl. iii and iv. (The Nanguer.) Size of the C. dama; white; the forehead, neck and part of the back red; horns small and slender. From Nubia and Senegal. ( 1) b. Horns annulated, and with a triple curve. , .fl. cervicapra, Pall., Buff. Supp. VI, :x.viii and :x.ix. (The An- _{1) The only spe~imen known to Buff on (tom. XII, pl. xxxiv) was a young one wtth horns curved stmply forwards1 which induced him to believe it was the ]Jarfr8. of Pliny. RlJ~UN ANTIA. 193 telope of India.) Is also v I'k have a triple flexure They areery lde. the Gazelle, but its horns . . · use m India as by unmng them pair to pair w'th h . w~apons, formed directions. They are deficie' t ~th e "pomts facmg in opposite .11 n m t e 1emale · .. addax, Lichtenst.( 1) A cad. Berl. 1824 • • pl. vu. (The Antelope of N b' ) ' pl. XI, attd Ruppel. h · u Ia. Also three · . orns, which are longer and 1 curves m 1ts ceding; it is whitish tinged m~r~ s ender than those of the pre-large brown spot on ;he foreh::~. grey on the back, and has a c. Horns annulated witl· a doubt ' II. e CUrVe but • d' ' rection to those of the precedin ones 'h ~tn z~g 2n an opposite di.- The DAMALIS o.f Smitz . g ' t e poznts dzrected backwards - 'J ~~, zn part. · .!1. bubalia ' L ·'· B u ba zz· s 0 f the ancients • B ff. vulg. the Barbary Cow (Tl B b . ' u . Supp. VI, xiv; than the others. the h . d 1 le u ahs.) More heavily formed ' ea ongandth' k 1 fawn coloured, except at th d f tc ; as arge as the Stag; with a black tuft C e ~n o the tail which is terminated .9. • ammon m Barbary . . caama, Cuv • vul Ca S Supp. VI pi xv.' (Thg. C vpe tag of the Hollanders; Buff. ' . . e aama ) s· '1 • but the curves of the h . Imi ar to the preceding; of their base a b d orhns more angular~ the circumference ' an on t e botto f h f, the neck, a longitudinal t . m o t e orehead, a line on tail black. Comt hs ripe on each leg, and the tip of the non at t e Cape. d. Small,t haet rga igM/ or bu t slz•g htly curved horns, less than the head . rea er number of species found only on the male. ~n .9.. lanata, Desmar • R b k the Cape. (The Wooi{ ;:t:to or Roebuck of the Hollanders of C. dama . hair 11 y pe.) Somewhat smaller than the on the ' woo y; grey above, white beneath. some bl 1- external face of th I' b ' ac.K> lower jaw. e lm s, and at the extremity of the .9. • mer gens ' BI a·m v.; D uz.k er-Bock of the Hollanders. (The (l) M. Lichtenstein · . J.dda:c or Strepaiceros or;1~ It thts ~arne, under the idea that it is the same as th Egypt. my. It Is seen on several of the ancient monume ts ~ To this sub , . . n o BJ.n t e'..,-pe or BodnltVe-lsBwonc ka olsfo t hb elHo nIgI the Kt.e ve l gn·s , F. Cuv. Mammif.-The Pu le L."';footed.!lntek>pe or Pal';.,. o Sander., <-!· pygorga) Scbreb. CCLXX!ll.-.ge h ie ·); Schr. 274.-'rh C b , am. Damels, Afric. Seen. pl. ix (.!1.. mela orns B .rr e 0 a, (.!1.. senegalensi8 ) f h' h mpw, ' uu. XII, pl. xxxii 2 . o w lC we have nothing but the :~The .11. mytilopes H, s:n~~ess ~be the same as the Pallalt.-The .!1.. mturo-e · adenota, Ham. ~mitb. 1 ' an perhaps the Kob of lJuff. which is probably Vot. I.-z |