^PYCEEOTINtE 5 



slender ; nose normal ; muzzle hairy ; no face-glands or foot- 

 glands (at least in fore-limbs), but, according to Owen, 

 inguinal glands present ; teats two ; a pair of black-tufted 

 glands on hind surface of lower part of hind-shanks, but no 

 glandular tufts on knees ; lateral hoofs wanting ; feet similar 

 in structure to those of most of the Reduncince, but the 

 membrane between the hoofs clothed with short hairs ; tail 

 medium. Skull without supraorbital pits or lachrymal 

 depressions, but with small lachrymal vacuities ; three pairs 

 of lower premolars. 



Range same as that of genus. 



Genus ^PYCEROS. 



iEpyceros, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p. 271, 1847 ; 



Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 15, 1897 ; 



Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 918. 

 ^pyceras, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. 



vol. viii) p. 71, 1907. 



Characters those of the subfamily. 



The range extends from Little Namaqualand, just south 

 of the Orange River, and Bechuanaland as far north as 

 Angola on the western, and Britisli East Africa and, it is 

 said, the Dafur district of the southern Sudan on the eastern 

 side of the continent. 



^RYCEROS MELAMPUS. 



Antilope melampus, Lichtenstein, Beise, vol. ii, p. 544, pi. iv, 1812, 

 Mag. nat. Freufide, vol. vi, p. 167, 1814 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's 

 Sdugthiere, vol. v, p. 1224, pi. cclxxiv, 1818 ; Schinz, Cuvier's 

 TJiierreich, vol. i, p. 388, 1821, Synop. Alavmi. vol. ii, p. 405, 

 1845, Mon. Antilop. p. 7, pi. vi, 1848; Desmarest, Mammalogie, 

 vol. ii, 13. 456, 1822 ; Burchell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. ii, 

 p. 301, 1824, List Mamm. presented to Brit. Mus. p. 5, 1825 ; 

 H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 219, vol. v, 

 p. 384, 1827 ; Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 374, 1827, Nouv. Tabl. 

 Regne Anim., Mamm. p. 176, 1842 ; /. B. Fischer, Synop). Mamm. 

 p. 462, 1829; Smuts, Emim. Mamm. Cap. p. 74, 1832; A. Smith, 

 S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii, p. 209, 1834 ; Jardine, Naturalist's 

 Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 217, pi. xxix, 1835 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1836, p. 37, Anat. Vertebrates, vol, iii, p. 633, 1868 ; Harris, 

 Wild Anim. S. Africa, p. 78, pi. xv, 1840 ; Gervais, Diet. Sci. 

 Nat. vol. i, p. 261, 1840 ; Laurillard, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. vol. i, 

 p. 616, 1841 ; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 162, 1848, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii, p. 281, 1846, List Osteal. Brit. 



