INTRODUCTION 



This volume, in which I have again been greatly assisted by- 

 Mr. Blaine, completes the Bovidce, and also includes the 

 Antilocapridcc and Giraffidce. 



As in Volume II., advantage has been taken of the copious 

 synonymy in " The Book of Antelopes," which is much fuller 

 than that given in most of the other groups included in tliis 

 Catalogue. It has, however, been found since the publica- 

 tion of the preceding volume that the references given in 

 the aforesaid work to " Jardine's Naturalists' Library " (not 

 infrequently misquoted " Naturalists' Miscellany ") do not 

 relate to the first edition, which is the one quoted in the 

 present volume. It has also been noticed that in some of 

 the references in " The Book of Antelopes " to F. Cuvier's 

 " Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes " the dates of the several 

 "livraisons" in which the plates were originally issued 

 are quoted, whereas in certain other cases, like Antilope 

 scripta, which dates from 1826, the date on the title-page 

 to the concluding volume (1842) is quoted. In the present 

 volume the original dates of the respective " livraisons," or 

 plates, are quoted. 



It may be added that the copies of F. Cuvier's work in 

 the libraries of the Museum and of the Zoological Society 

 do not accord with one another either in the order in which 

 the plates are bound up or in their numbering, which is in 

 MS. This is exemplified by the following instances : — 



Zool. Society's 

 Copy. 



vol. iv, pi. 368 



„ „ „ 360 



„ „ „ 384-5 



„ „ „ 316 



In " The Book of Antelopes " the order of the Zoological 



