. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . io6 HISTORY OF THE COMMON ANTELOPE. {Capra Cervicapra, Lin.—UAntelopey BufF.) The Antelope, properly fo called, abounds in Barbary,and in all the northern parts of Africa.—It is fomewhatlefs than the Fallow-deer: Its horns are about fixteeninches long, furrounded with prominent rings almoft tothe top, where they are twelve inches diftant from pointto point. The horns of the Antelope are remarkable fora beautiful double flexion, which gives them the appear-ance of the lyre of the ancients. The colour of the hairon t
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . io6 HISTORY OF THE COMMON ANTELOPE. {Capra Cervicapra, Lin.—UAntelopey BufF.) The Antelope, properly fo called, abounds in Barbary,and in all the northern parts of Africa.—It is fomewhatlefs than the Fallow-deer: Its horns are about fixteeninches long, furrounded with prominent rings almoft tothe top, where they are twelve inches diftant from pointto point. The horns of the Antelope are remarkable fora beautiful double flexion, which gives them the appear-ance of the lyre of the ancients. The colour of the hairon the back is brown, mixed with red; the belly and in-fide of the thighs are white ; the tail fliort. HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 107 THE BARBARY ANTELOPE,[Capra Dorcasy Lin.—La Gazelle^ BufF.) Is likewife common in all tlie northern parts of Africa,in Syria, and Mefopotamia; and feems to be a variety ofthe laft-mentioned animal, which it ftrongly refembles;only the two colours on the back are feparated from eachother by a ftrong dufky line on each fide, and on eachknee there is a tuft of ha
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