OTIBOVID^. 31 



2. Nesotragns Livingstonianiis. (Runiza or Lurusa.) B.M. 



Brown, middle of nose black. 



Nesotragus moschata, Pefos, Mossamh. p. 189. 

 Nesotragus Liviugstouianus, Kirk, P. Z. S. 18G4, p. 637. 



Hab. Central Africa: Shupanga and Lupata (Kirl). In dense 

 underwood jungle, in paii's. 



" Same size as the Zanzibar species ; but the Zambesi species is 

 lighter, the hair softer, the ears larger and broader, the horns more 

 closely ringed, and the nostrils more narrowed." — Kirk. I 



3. PEDIOTRAGUS. (The Bleek-Bock.) ^• 



Horns over the orbit, only in males, subulate, elongate, erect over 

 the back of the orbit. Nose bovine ; muffle large ; crumen arched, 

 ti'ansverse. Ears large. Tail very short. Hoofs triangular, flat 

 beneath and acute in front. Inguinal pores none. Scrotum large. 

 Intermaxillary bones reaching to the nasal. {Calotragus, sect. 1, 

 Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 71, t. 8. f. 4, 5, skuU.) 



J ;\>r^ '^^ 1- Pediotragus campestris. B.M. 



jlU'^'i^ J^ (The Stein-Bock, or Bleek-Bock.) 



W*^j ---^ . ^_^ - 



' Fulvous ash ; hair uniform, often white-tipped. 



Calotragus campestris, Gray, Cat. TTngul. B. M. p. 71, t. 8. f. 4, 5, as 



C. tragulus. 

 Antilope tragulus, Peters, 3fossamb. p. 187. 



^rt6. South Africa. .,; /ty^iY'v- t^W 



•* Nose ovine, covered with hair, icithout any or only a nidimentary muffle. 



Fam. 6. OVIBOVID^E. 



Nostrils open, bald within. Nose ovine, hairy, with a small 

 naked muffle. Horns behind the orbits, round, smooth, close toge- 

 ther at the base, spread out on the sides, conical, depressed and ru- 

 gose at the base. Tail very short, flattened, hairy above. False 

 hoofs well developed. Skull : nose-hole large ; intermaxiUaries 

 short, not reaching the nasals ; no suborbital fissure or fossa ; molars 

 well developed ■with^\| supplementary lobe. 



'\ 1. OVIBOS. 



Nose ovine, hairy ; inner edge of the nostril with a bald margin. 

 Horns of the male very broad at the base, nearly united together, 



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