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Body generally striped. Molars Irachydont, those of the 

 upper jaw in existing forms with a small inner accessory 

 column. Three existing Ethiopian genera. 

 Tragelaphus. 1 — Female hornless. Horns of males (Fig. 142) over 







Fig. 142.— Head of Tragelaphus gratus. From Sclater, l'roc. Zool. Soc. 1SS3, p. 36. 



orbit, with one or two spiral turns, obscurely ridged,- the posterior 

 ridge being more developed than the anterior. Skull with small 

 supraorbital pits, very small lachrymal fissure, and no deep inter- 

 cornual depression in the frontals. Neck maned or smooth. Hoofs 

 short or long. Coloration usually brilliant, differing markedly in 

 the two sexes, and the white bands on the body, when present, 

 numerous and distinct. Seven species. 



1 De Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. Includes Euryceros, Gray. 





