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CONNOCHETID^. 



5C. 



Fam. 10. iEPYCEROTID^. 



Horns over the orbit, conical, compressed, ringed at the base. 

 Nose tapering, ovine, simple. Crumen none. False hoofs none. 

 Pastern with tufts of rigid black hairs on each side. 



1. .ffiPYCEEOS. 



Horns lyrate, elongate, wide-spreading, curved outwards at the 

 base, then upwards at the tips. Crumen none. Knees not tufted, 

 with a tuft of black hair near the pasterns. (Gray, Cat. Ungul. 

 B. M. p. 64, t. 7. f. 3, head and horns.) 



1. .ffipyceros melampus. (Pallah or Eooge Bock.) B.M. 



Bay ; sides and knee paler, tuft above the back of feet black. 



jEpyceros melampus, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 65, t. 7. f. 3 (head 

 and horns). 



Hah. South Africa. Migratory. Uzaramo (Sjjeke). Open parts 

 of the forest in herds. ^ ? < t? 



B. Nostrils covered with a valve, hairy within. Crumen none. — Antilopeae // / /> 

 desertormu, Gray, Cut. Ungul. £. M. p. 118. ^^'Ao (^ 



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'^Fam. 11. CONNOCHETID^. (Gnoos.) 



Muzzle very depressed, spongy and bristly. Nostrils far apart, 

 covered with a valve, bearded within. Horns on the hinder part 

 of the frontal bones, behind the orbit, conical, cylindrical, close toge- 

 ther at the base, and bent outwards and recurved at the tips. Body 

 stout ; legs very slender. Tail elongate, equine, covered with long 

 hair from the base. Teats four. Hoofs much compressed in front ; 

 false hoofs well developed. Skull without orbital fissure ; inter- 

 maxillary reaching to the nasal. — Africa. 



Equine Antelopes (Antilopese equinse), Gray, Cat. Ungul. B.M. p. 110. 

 Connochetes, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 119. 



The horns of the young Gnu are erect, cyHndiical, conical, slightly 

 curved, rather Ij^rate, somewhat like the horns of Damulis lunata, 

 but less curved ; they gradually bend backward at the ba^c, and 

 are at length produced and spread out laterally. (See Gray, Ann. 

 & Mag. N. H. 1S6!), vol. iv. p. 291.) Mr. Blyth proposed to form 

 the young Gorgon into a genus, under the name of Butragus. 



