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the continent, and with the remains of recent species that in- 

 habit these coasts, in conjunction with parts of recent land and 

 freshwater animals and plants which are carried amongst them 

 by the currents of various rivers that are discharging their con- 

 tents into these seas : disintegration is continually occurring, and 

 masses of ' rocks/ with or without their organic contents, are 

 annually being swept into the sea and deposited at various depths 

 beneath its surface, frequently burying hosts of living forms 

 amongst them. 



Berners Street, Ipswich, August 16, 1851. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 11, 1850.— W. Spence, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 

 Synopsis of the species of Antelopes and Strepsiceres, 



WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES. By J. E. 



Gray, Esq., F.R.S., P.B.S. etc. 



[Concluded from p. 146.] 



2. The Cervine Antelopes have an elongated tail, cylindrical at 

 the base, and with long hair at the end, often forming a compressed 

 ridge ; the body heavy and the limbs strong. They are of a large 

 size. 



a. Neck not maned. 



18. Adenota. 



Muffle cordate, moderate, cervine ; nose hairy between the back of 

 the nostrils ; horns sublyrate, ringed, when young rather recurved ; 

 place of tear-bag covered with a tuft of hair ; hair of the back whorled, 

 of dorsal line and back of head reversed ; tail elongate, hairy. 



This genus is very like Eleotragus, but has a smaller, more cervine 

 muzzle and lyrated horns ; it differs from Cobus in the form of the 

 tail, and wanting the mane, and from both in having a tuft of hair 

 in the front of the orbit. 



* Horns sublyrate ; tail hairy, 



1. Adenota Kob. The ^Equitoon. 



Pale brown ; end of nose, inside of ears, chest, belly, inside of legs 

 and thighs, tip of tail, and band above hoofs white ; front of fore and 

 hind legs, and end of ears and tail black ; hair of the dorsal line re- 

 versed, with a whorl on the shoulders and loins. 



Antilope Kob, Erxl. from Kob, Buffon, H. N. xii. t. 32. f. 1 ? 

 — Kobus Adansonii, A. Smith, from Buffon. — Gambian Antelope, 

 Penn. Syn. 39, from Buffon. — A. adenota, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 

 224. t. 184. and t. 183. f. 3, 4. horns? 



A. Kob, Ogilby, P.Z.S. 1836. — A. annulipes, Gray, Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1843. — Adenota Kob, Gray, Knows. Menag. 14. 1. 14, 15. 



Far. Female, hair longer, sides of face whitish. 



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