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Genus OREOTRAGUS. 



Oreotragus, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Joum. vol. ii, p. 212, 1834 ; 

 Riltimcyer, Ahh. sell weiz. pal. Ges. vol. iv, p. 52, 1877; Sclater 

 and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 3, 1895 ; Pococh, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 885. 



Oritragus, Gloger, Naturgeschichte, vol. i, p. 154, 1841. 



General characters those of the subfamily. 



Coat consisting of thick pithy hairs, quite different in 

 character from those of any other African antelopes ; ears of 

 moderate size and rounded ; head triangular and pointed. 

 Distribution co-extensive with that of subfamily. 



OEEOTriAGUS OEEOTRAGUS. 



Antilope oreotragiis, Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. iii, p. 269, 

 1783 ; Schreber, Sciugthiere, pi. cclix, 1785 ; Gmelin, Linn.'s Syst. 

 Nat. vol. i, p. 189, 1788; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, p. 316, 

 . 1792 ; Donndorff, Zool. Beytrdge, vol. i, p. 637, 1792 ; Link, 

 Beytrdge Natgesch. vol. ii, p. 99, 1795 ; Bcchstein, Uehersicht 

 vierfiiss. Thiere, vol. i, p. 74, 1799, vol. ii, p. 642, 1800 ; Shaiv, Gen. 

 Zool. \o\. ii, pt. 2, p. 321, 1801 ; Turton, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, 

 p. 114, 1802; Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. xvi, p. 328, 

 1803, ed. 2, vol. ii, p. 191, 1816, Mammalogie, \o\.\i, p. 460, 1822, 

 Bid. Class. Hist. Nat. vol. i. \). 445, 1822; Cuvier, Diet. Sei. 

 Nat. vol. ii, p. 233, 1804 ; Tiedemann, Zool. vol. i, p. 408, 1808 ; 

 Thunherg, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. vol. iii, p. 311, 1801 ; 

 Afzelius, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. vol. vii, p. 219, 1815 ; Goldfuss. 

 Schreber' s Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. v, p. 1228, 1818; Schinz, 

 Cuvier's Theirreich, vol. i, p. 392, 1821, Synop. Mamm. vol. ii, 

 p. 410, 1845 ; Burchell, List Mamm. presented to Brit. Miis. 

 p. 6, 1825 ; Lichtenstein, Darstellimg. SdugetJiiere, pi. xv, 1828 ; 

 J.B. Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 466,1829; Biippell, Neue Wirbelfh. 

 Abyssin., Mamm. p. 25, 1835 ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. Anim. vol. x, 

 p. 291, 1836 ; Oiven, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 37, Anat. Verte- 

 brates, vol. iii, p. 633, 1868 ; Waterhouse, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. 

 Soc. p. 42, 1838; Oken, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte, vol. vii, 

 p. 1363, 1838 ; Gervais, Diet. 'Sci. Nat, Suppl. vol. i, p. 262, 1840 ; 

 Forster, Descript. Anim. p. 382, 1844 ; Wagner, Schreber's 

 Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 436, 1844, vol. v, p. 412, 1855 ; 

 Giebel, SdugetJiiere, p. 318, 1855. 



Antilope saltatrix, Boddacrt, Elenclius Anim. p. 141, 1785; Link, 

 Beytrdge Nat^urgesch. vol. ii, p. 99, 1795; Lesson, Man. Mamm. 

 p. 377, 1827 ; 'iVo2*v. Tabl. Regn. Anim., Mamm. p. 177,1842; 

 Des Murs and Prevost, Lefebvres Voyage Abyss, vol. vi, Zool. 

 p. 32, pi. iv, 1827; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, 

 p. 233, 1887. 



Antilope klippspringer, Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. xii. 

 p. 390, vol. xxiv, p. 32, 1804. 



