,776. on each fide of the black fpot on the under lip, may like- wife be feen on the ikin of the hartbeeft which I brought home with me. This animal is deicribed by M . P a l l a s , in Fafc. I. p. 12, No. XVI. and Fafc. XII. No. XIII. p. 1 6 of his Spicilegia Zoologica, under the denomination of the antilope bubalis-, but in the Syjlema Natura, it has been previouily taken notice of by the name of capra dorcas : wherefore I choofe to keep this fpecific name, for the fake o f avoiding confufion ; at the fame time in conformity to the well-founded opinion o f M. P a l l a s , referring the dorcas to the antilope or gazel genus. The bubalis o f the ancients was probably the fame animal with our hartbeefts, and fo is the vache de Barbarie, defcribed in the Mem. pour fervir a PHiJl. des Animaux, Part II. p. 2 4. The figure given there, Tab. XXXIX. is, it is true, not a perfect likenefs of the antilope dorcas ; but being very indifferent likewife in other refpedts, may, with fome degree of probability, be fuppofed to reprefent this animal. The defcription, however, contained in the following paffage, 1. c. does not cor-' refpond quite fo well with the hartbeeft’s hair, viz. Boil roux, plus pâle vers la poitrine, que vers la racine, prefque de même grojpeur vers le point que vers la racine. It feems to be merely this paffage that has occafioned M. B u f f o n , Tom. XII. p. 296, under the article bubal, to confound the hartbeeft with the animal which K o l b e called the elk; though at the fame time he evidently gives a different defcription o f the latter, viz. that it is o f an aih colour, 8cc. See. The hair of the hartbeeft is particularly fine, and about an inch in length, and in other refpedts refembling that of harts and gazels. The ears are covered with white hair on the infide. infide. This animal has no teeth» excepting in the lower jaw. Thefe are eight in number; thofe in the middle”are the broadeft, and they are likewife broader at the top than they are near the bafe; thus in number, as well as other properties, entirely refembling the teeth of the gnu. The legs are rather flender, with fmall fetlocks and hoofs. M. P e n n a n t , in his Synopjis of Quadrupeds, p. 37, and in his Hijlory of Quadrupeds, p. 90, calls this beaft the cervine-antilope', and fuppofes that M. F o r s k a l , by the baker uafch o f the Arabians, which he places among the animals o f a genus hitherto undetermined, means this creature. Mr. H o u t t u y n likewife, by the defcription and miferable drawing he has given us in Vol. III. p. 213, Plate XXIV. probably means the bartbeejl. One may eafily fee that this figure has fome affinity With the temamaqama o f Seba, Vol. I. Tab. XLIII. which is likewife very properly referred to by M. P a l l a s for the hartbeeft; but I now find that Mr. P e n n a n t looks upon this to be his Senegal antilope: the defcription, however, does not feem to agree fo well with the figure of Seba there referred to, as withM. d e B u f f o n ’s o f the thoba, Tab. XXXII. fig. 2, to Which he refers likewife. The ikeleton and cranium given by M. d e B u f f o n in Vol. XII. Tab. XXXVII and XXXVIII. under the denomination of thofe of the bubal, belong to the hartbeeft; and from hence it appears, that the horns are apt to vary in this animal. May not, therefore, the Senegal and cervine antilopes of Mr. P e n n a n t be, in fa ft, one and the fame animal ? Indeed, though I have found the hofns of the hartbeeft differ from each other pretty much in their external furface, yet it appeared to me that the pofition of D d 2 them 1776. January. V^-yO
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