AKILAS. [AQuit.A..] AKKO [(m, for iipt;), a clean beast, mentioned Deut. xiv. 5. In the A. V. this word is translated wild goat; the Sept., which the Vulg. follows, gives rpaygNa0os, the Targums as also the Syriac version. That some species of goat is in tended cannot be doubted. Gesenius concludes in favour of the roebuck; while others prefer the chamois, and others the gazelle. Gesenius derives it from Arab. anak, whilst Fiirst says it is to be traced to a ` radix nominalis,' common to both the . Sanscrit and Semitic tongues]. tens (Onkines Hebrii ice) conjectures that the name arose ob fugacitatem,' from its shyness and consequent readiness to flee; and Dr. Harris points out what he takes to be a confirmation of this con jecture in Shaw's travels; who, from the transla tions of the Sept. and Vulgate, makes it a goat deer, or Tragelaphus, such as the Lerwee or Fishtail, by mistake referred to Capra Afainbrica of Linnaeus; whereas that naturalist (System. Nat. 13th ed. by Gmelin) places Lenvee among the synonyms of Ant. Cervicapra, which does not suit Shaw's notice, and is not known in Western Asia. The Fishtail is, however, a ruminant of the
African desert, possibly one of the larger Antilopidae, with long mane, but not as yet scientifically de scribed. Akko, therefore, if it be not a second name of the Zamor, which we refer to the Kebsch, or wild sheep (Chamois), as the species must be sought among ruminants that were accessible for food to the Hebrews, we should be inclined to view as the name of one of the Gazelles, probably the Ahu (Ant. unless the Abyssinian Ibex (Capra [Valle) had formerly extended into Arabia, and it could be shewn that it is a distinct species. We may here also remark upon the re searches of Riippell and of Hemprich and Ehren berg, that they naturally sought in vain for the Abyssinian Ibex as it is figured in Griffith's Cuvier, because, by some mistake of the letter engraver, he has affixed that name to the representation of Ovis Tragelaphus or Kebsch.—C. H. S.