3. ONOTRAGUS. 17 



"Weight 600 lb8., stands 13 hands high, with rough brown hair 

 like the Sambiir Deer of India." 



Horn of the figure sublyrate, rugose ; ears small ; face short, 

 conical. 



2. ADENOTA. 



Muffle cervine, cordate, moderate. Nose hairy between and over 

 the nostrils. Horns sublyrate, ringed, in males only, in young re- 

 curved. Hair of back whorled, of dorsal line and back of head 

 reversed. Tail rather short, hairy, crested. (Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. 

 p. 96, t. 11. f. 2, skull ; H>/droiragus, Fitzinger, p. 48.) 



1. Adenota kob. (The ^quitoou.) B.M. 



Pale brown. End of nose, inside of ears, chest, belly, inside of 

 legs and thighs, tip of tail, and band above the hoof white ; 

 front of fore and hind legs and end of ears and tail black. Hair 

 of dorsal line reversed, with a whorl on the shoulders and loins. 



Adenota kob, Grai/, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 96, t. 11. f. 1, 2 (skull). 



Hub. West Africa : Gambia. 



a. Adenota Jcul. (The Kul or Kuhl.) The male the size of A. 

 Scemmerringii, blackish, whitish beneath, with a large white frontal 

 tuft. The female fulvous cervine, beneath paler ; part of the limbs 

 and spot before the eye brown. (Heuglin, Antilop. p. 12.) — Hah. 

 South Kordofan. 



b. Adenota wiiil. (The Wuil.) Male size of A. Scemmerrincfii, 

 underside sooty ; cervical and frontal streak and circumference of 

 the eyes greyish white. (Heuglin, Antilop. p. 13.) — Bab. Sobat 

 {Ilei(gliti). 



3. ONOTEAGUS. 



Tail elongate, slender, with a crested tuft at the end. Horns 

 elongate, subljTate, recurved at the tip ; strong, nodose in front. 

 Hair of back whorled. Skull, $ , Tab. II. f. 4. 



Adenota, section **, G)-m/, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 98. 



1. Onotragus lechee. (The Lechee.) B.M. 



Pale brown ; orbits and lower part of body whitish ; front of legs 

 dark brown. SkuU, $ . 



Heleotragus leche, Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 6-58. 



Adenota lechee, Grag, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 98 ; P. Z. S. 1850, tab. xx. 



Hah. South Africa (Vardon); Central Africa (Pethcrich). 

 Heuglin thinks this is the young male of his A. meijaceros. 



2. Onotragus Vardoiiii. (The Poku.) B.M. 



Autilope Vardonii, Lu-ing4oi/e, Mission. Trav. 

 Heleotragus Vardonii, A7/-A-, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 657. 



