>77s- only of both thefe animals, has, as I have already men- January. ' ^ J tioned, mifcalled the Cape-elk by the name of coudou\ ■which however properly belongs to the animal I am now defcribing, whofe name he has, inftead of this, diftorted to condoma; a circumftance which probably proceeded from the letter to which M. B u ffo n refers, having been ill written, or elfe from his having made a miftake in reading it; fo that either in one cafe or the other, they turned the letter u in coudou topfy turvy, and made an n o f it. He was obliged to alter the termination alfo, otherwife we Ihould have had two very different animals with the fame name. By this means, likewife, the elk-antilope ran the rifk of wearing the long ftately horns of the koedoe. Neither has M. H o u ttu yn been more fortunate in his Natuurlyke Hijlorie, Vol. III. p. 267, in which he claffes them with the iheep. Excepting the’ horns, the whole of the figure he has given in Tab. XXVI. 1. c. is good for nothing. Our great countryman Linnalus has been fo far milled, as to refer to it in his Syjlem of Nature for the figure o f the avis Jlrepficeros; though the body they have put to the horns (which, however, never belonged to it) is certainly not like that of a iheep. A better figure is given in the Nowv. Defcrip. du Cap de B. Bfperance, page 4 1 , 42, the author of which allures us, that it was taken from the life. In the mean time I muft confefs, that I had no cognizance whatever of the beard: I will not venture, however, todifputethe point very tenacioully, as Ifaw thefe animals alive but twice in the courfe of my hunting expeditions, though, indeed, that was at no great diftance. M. P a l la s , who had examined the head of a koedoe, remarks marks in Spic. I. p. 1— 17, that the koedoe has no beard, and therefore cannot be the capra anonyma of K o l b e . v^-y-o Mr. P e n n a n t , who in his Hijlory of Quadrupeds, Vol. I. p. 77, has accurately defcribed the koedoe under the name of. the Jiriped antilope from feveral ikins of this animal, and who refers to the above-mentioned figure in the Nouv. Defcript. du Cap, as being a good one, is quite filent with refpeét to the beard. I have fome time before aflerted in the Swediih TranfaCtions for 17 79, p. 157» that the male of the koedoe had no horns ; a circumftance which had not been remarked before by any zoologift, and which I would wilh to confirm in this place ; with the additional remark, that the porus ceriferus, which in a number o f ga- zels is placed below the eye, is wanting in the koedoe. Concerning this point I affiired myfelf, by infpeéting the body of a fawn of one of the animals immediately after it was ihot. The predominant colour in this fawn’s lkin, which I brought home with me, is a rufty brown; the ridge of thé back is likewife partly inclined to brown and partly to white ; but the ftripes which go from it downwards, to the number, of eight or nine, are white ; the hind part of the belly is o f a white colour, which extends lirait downwards on the fore part of the hind legs in the form of a white lift, terminating a hand’s breadth above the hoofs ; but diredtly above them on all the four feet there is a white ipot, compofed, as it were, of two ; the fetlock-joints are extremely fmall, and the part below each of them is of a brown colour. On the breaft again, there are likewife fome dark brown marks. The forehead and the fore part of the nofe are brown, the
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