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Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
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ne in the upper. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ,&c. Mufk with a fharp pointed tuft of hair on the upper part of the head. Guinea Antelope, Pennant. Shiadr. p. ji. La Grimme. Be Buffon. 12. 307. /. 41. AT the time when Linnzeus compofed the lafl: Edition of the SyfteniaNature, an uncertainty prevailed with refpeft to the proper arrange-ment of this animal; and as no other than female fpecimcns had then beenfeen in the European Mufeums, and as the individual fpecimen mentioned byDr. Grimm, its firfl defcriber, was faid to be without horns, Linnaeus wastherefore induced to place it as a fpecies of the genus Mofchusj in whichhe followed the example of the judicious Briflbn. The charafters of the ani-mal are now better known, and it is found to belong with greater proprietyto the genus Antelope, in which it is placed by Mr. Pennant. It is to be ob-ferved however that it has ftrongly the general habit and appearance of aMufkj and forms as it were a connedting link between the genera of Mof- chus.
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^IOSCMTJS OMMl^inA TM)B ©l^n^iEA MTJSX. IPu^-i*s i^e-^ei i^tfe^-if J^itt*^J. 17-P2 &^^ l.J^if^tii^afi-.Jjevo-taJt J^jfi^^eu>yt,. ( 21 ) chus, Cervus, and Antclaus, It is remarkable that in many, if not in moitfpecies of Antelope, a fort of cavity or finus exifts under the eye. Thisparticularity takes place in a very remarkable manner in the creature at pre-fent under confideration; and in the living animal is even more ftrikinglyconfpicuous dian in the Antelopes themfelves. The whole animal is extremely elegant in its appearance; its colour is aclear yellowifh bay ; fomewhat paler beneath. The horns are very fhort,fmooth, black, and moderately /harp. On the forehead between the horns isa very confpicuous tuft of ereft black hairs of a ftronger nature than the reftof the body. This forms one of its moft ftriking charafters as a fpecies;it inclines a little backwards, and has an acute termination. The eyes arelarge, the hoofs fmall and black. This animal is a native of Africa, a

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