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boldness, and the sharp horns are formidable weapons. This
animal is often represented on the monuments of Nubia and
Egypt.

The “ pygarg ” mentioned in the 14th chapter of Deute-
ronomy, and there only, is generally supposed to be a species
of antelope, though the marginal reading renders it “ bison,”
for which, however, there seems to be no other authority
than the similarity of the name to that of the original, “ di-
shon.” Several old authors mention an animal called pygar-
gus: Herodotus names it in a list of Libyan quadrupeds,
Pliny, as a kind of antelope, and Zllian, as a quadruped of
timid character. The Greek name seems to denote an
animal having its hinder parts white; and Bochart finds a
great affinity between the African lidmee, or the strepsicorus
and addace of the ancients, and the “ diskon,”’ which our
translators render “pygarg” after the Septuagint and Vul-
gate. He says that the ddmee has the white hinder parts
which the name pygarg requires, and that addace has some
resemblance to the Hebrew name.

CameLoparpatis Grrarra.—The Camelopard. (Plate
VIIL.)

The Zemer, translated chamois in the 14th chapter of
Deuteronomy, is very generally supposed to mean the giraffe,