12 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



F.— ^pyceros melampus petersi. 



^pyceros petersi, Bocage, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 741 ; Huet, Bull. 



Soc. Acclini. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 479 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, 



p. 460; Floiver and LydeJcTcer, Study of Mammals, p. 341, 1891 ; 



Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 231, 1893, Great and Small Game 



of Africa, p. 323, 1899, Ga7ne Atiimals of Africa, p. 244, 1908 ; 



Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 25, 1897 ; 



W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 207, 1900. 

 ^pyceras petersi, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. {Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. vol. viii) p. 79, 1907. 

 ^pyceros melampus petersi, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 229, 1910. 



Typical locality Angola. 



Distinguished from typical race by the presence of a 

 blackish brown blaze on middle of lower part of muzzle. 



98. 3. 20. 2. Skin, mounted, and skull. Membo Valley, 

 Angola ; collected by G. W. Penrice, Esq. 



Purchased (Gerrard), 1898. 



98. 3. 20. 3. Skull and skin, female. Coporole Valley, 

 Angola ; same collector. Same Jdstori/. 



5. 1. 11. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. South Cuneni 

 Valley, on Damara border of Angola. 



Presented hy Capt. B. A. Cunningham, 1905. 



Subfamily xii. — SAIGINiE. 



Eepresented by a single medium-sized and heavily built 

 existing species. Horns (absent in females) of medium 

 length, heteronymous, somewhat irregularly lyrate, heavily 

 ridged, and (unlike those of all other antelopes) amber- 

 coloured or whitish ; tail short ; nose inflated and prolonged 

 into a kind of downwardly bent proboscis, with the nostrils 

 opening downwards ; muzzle hauy ; small face-glands ; glands 

 in all four feet, comparable in structure, according to Pocock, 

 to those of a sheep rather than to those of a gazelle ; a pair 

 of small inguinal glands, placed close to the teats, which are 

 fom' in number ; a pair of tufted knee-glands ; lateral hoofs 

 present ; foot-structure not fully known ; tail short. Skull 

 with short premaxillse and nasals, a large and vaulted nasal 

 aperture, small supraorbital pits, shallow lachrymal depres- 

 sions, but no lachrymal vacuities ; two pairs of lower and 



