. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 8. RUMINANTIA. 129. Fig. 62.—Prong-horoed Antelope. Near it, we conceive, should be placed the Addax, together with the A. sylvatica, decula, scripta, and one or two others. The A. scripta, or Harnessed Antelope, is an elegant small species, the Guib of Buffon, of a lively fulvous colour, marked with harness-\\^& white stripes and spots. The A. zebra has dark regular stripes across the crupper.] i. Horns bifurcated, (Antilocapra, Ord; Dicr
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 8. RUMINANTIA. 129. Fig. 62.—Prong-horoed Antelope. Near it, we conceive, should be placed the Addax, together with the A. sylvatica, decula, scripta, and one or two others. The A. scripta, or Harnessed Antelope, is an elegant small species, the Guib of Buffon, of a lively fulvous colour, marked with harness-\\^& white stripes and spots. The A. zebra has dark regular stripes across the crupper.] i. Horns bifurcated, (Antilocapra, Ord; Dicranoceros, Smith) Of all the forms of hollow horns, this is the most singular : a compressed branch is given ofl' from their base or trunk, almost like the antler of a Stag; the pointed tips curve back- ward. The best known species is The Cabril of the Canadians {A. furcifera, H. Smith), which inhabits the plains of the centre and west of North America in vast herds: its size is nearly that of the Roe ; hair thick, waved, and reddish; the antler of its horns situate near the middle of their height. [Nearly allied is the A. pal- mata, Smith, decidedly a distinct species, which has palmated forked horns, that it employs in scooping away the snow : it is a mountain animal, the range of which appears to be more southward than that of the other.] k. Four horns {Tetraceros, Leach). This subdivision, recently discovered in India, was not unknown to the ancients. jElian speaks of it, xv. c. H, by the name of the Four-horiied Oryx *: the anterior pair are before the eyes, the posterior completely behind the frontal. [As the position of the horns varies in some groups of two-horned Antelopes, it may be that the anterior pair of the four-horned species are represented in the greater number, and the posterior pair in the Bush Ante- lopes (Philanto7nba).'\ The Tchicarra (A- cMcarra, Hardw.).—Size of a Roe, and nearly unifomi fulvous : no horns in the female sex. It is found in
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