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2. Hind legs much shorter than the fore. Horns on hack edge of frontal 

 bone behind the orbit, short, conical, obscurely angular. Nose bovine. 

 Muffle large and moist. Skidl: nasal opening small ; molars tvith sup- 

 plementary lobes. Asia. 



5, PORTAX. 



Portax, Grag, Cat. Ungid. B. M. p. 141, f. 2 (skiiU). 



1. Portax tragocamelus. (The Nilghau.) B.M. 



Portax ti-agocamelus, Gray, Cat. Unyul. B. M. p. 141. 

 Hah. India. 



Fam. 14. CAPRIDiE. 



Horns behind the orbit, erect, compressed, curved backwards, with 

 a longitiidiual keel in front, deeper than wide at base. Nose ovine 

 or subcervine ; nostrils close together in front. Forehead convex, 

 elevated behind. Chin of males bearded. Crumen none (?). Hoofs 

 four-sided, scarcely higher before than behind. Teats two, rarely 

 four. Males emitting a strong stench. Skull with small suborbital 

 fissure and no fossa. 



Caprese, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 142. 



1. Nose subcervine ; muffle small, moist between the nostrils. 

 1. HEMITEAGUS. 



Horns short, recurved, trigonal, compressed, nodose in front. Male 

 not bearded; neck manod. (Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 144, t. 18. 

 f. 3, 4.) 



1. Hemitragus jemlaicus. (The Jharal or Tehr.) B.M. 



Hemitragus jemlaicus, Gray, Cat. Ungid. B. M. p. 144, 1. 18. f. 3 & 4. 



Hah. India : Nepal, the Kachar. 



2. KEMAS. 



Horns short, thick, recurved, quadi-angular, flat in front, and 

 rounded on the outside, closely ringed. Male bearded. (Gray, Cat. 

 Ungul. B. M. p. 146, t. 19. f. 1, 2, skull.) 



1. Kemas warryato. (The Warryato or Jungle Kemas.) B.M. 

 Kemas warryato, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 146, t. 19. f. 1 & 2. 

 Hah. India ; Neilgherries. 



