BUBALINiE 3 



column. Vertebi'ic: usually c. 7, f). 13, L. 6, s. 5, ca. 12-14, 

 but in Connochcvtcs gnu D. 14. 



The distributional area embraces practically the whole of 

 Africa, where the country is suitable to these antelopes. In 

 the Pliocene it included India. 



The three genera here recognised are distinguished as 

 foHows : — 



A. Horns rising more or less vertically, ringed, with 



smooth tips ; face-gland with a single orifice 



leading into a hair-lined tube, which dips into 



the substance of the gland. 



a. Horns doubly curved, more or less sharply 



angulated, mounted on an elevated pedicle, 



and face abnormally elongated Buhalis. 



h. Horns simply curved, without sharp angulation, 

 not supported on a pedicle, and face of 

 normal proportions Damaliscus. 



B. Horns directed mainly outwards or downwards at 



starting, smooth throughout ; face-glands 

 without central orifice and tube, their free 

 surface consisting of a sparsely haired area 

 of skin Connochcetes. 



I. Genus BUBAL IS. 



Bubalis, Lichtenstein, Mag. nat. Freunde, p. 154, 1814 ; Sclater and 



Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 5, 1894 ; PococJi, Proc. 



Zool. Sac. 1910, p. 900. 

 Wcel&phus, B I aijiville, Bull. Soc. Philoni. 1816, p. 75; Biltimeyer, 



Ahli. sell weiz. pal. Ges. vol. iv, p. 47, 1877. 

 Damalis and Acronotus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. 



iv, pp. 343 and 345, 1827. 

 Sigmoceros, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, no. 8, p. 4, 1912. 



Large ungainly antelopes, with abnormally long faces, 

 and horns, which are strongly ridged for the greater part of 

 their length, and doubly curved, with a more or less marked 

 " elbow " at commencement of smooth tips, rising in a more or 

 less vertical direction from a cylindrical pedicle surmounting 

 the fronto-occipital region. Neck without mane, tail reaching 

 below hocks, moderately haired, generally with a crest of 

 long hair on upper side of terminal half ; a whorl of hair on 

 forehead, and hair on middle line of face below this directed 

 downwards to a point a short distance above nose, where 

 ihere is a second whorl ; face-glands large, with a central 



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