146 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Pediotragus, Fitzinger, Sitzher. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, 

 p. 163, 1869; Jentinh, Notes Leyden Mus, vol. xxii, p. 30, 1900. 



Eaphiceros, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 796. 



Rhaphiceros, Lydehker, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 249, 

 1899 ; Rothschild, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 237. 



No bare patch below ear, or tufts on knees ; tail short ; 

 horns rising nearly vertically, slender, with slightly developed 

 ridges on basal half ; lateral hoofs present or absent. Skull 

 stout and strong, with a sharp broad muzzle, small but deep 

 lachrymal depressions, of which the upper and lower margins 

 are rounded. 



For the distinctive characteristics of the foot of this 

 genus, as coinpared with that of Ourehia, see Pocock, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1910, p. 885. 



The distributional area is restricted to Southern and 

 Eastern Africa. 



The genus is divisible into the two following groups : — 



A. Lateral hoofs wanting (Raphicerus). 



a. Coat uniformly coloured R. campestris. 



h. Coatspeckled R, sharp ei. 



B. Lateral hoofs present [Nototragus] R. melanotis. 



1. Subgenus RAPHICERUS. 



Lateral hoofs wanting. 



I. EAPHICEEUS CAMPESTEIS. 



Capra grimmia, Thunherg, Reise, vol. ii, p. 8, 1789, nee Linn. 



Antilope campestris, Thunberg, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. vol. iii, 

 p. 311, 1811. 



Antilope tragulus, Lichtenstein, Mag. nat. Freunde, vol. vi, p. 176, 

 1814, Darstellung. Sdugeth. pi. xiv, 1828 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's 

 Sdugthiere, vol. v, p. 1234, 1818 ; Schinz, Cuvier's Thierreich, 

 vol. i, p. 392, 1821 ; Desmarest, Ma7mnalogie, vol. ii, p. 458, 

 1822; J. Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 464, 1829; Smiits, Enum. 

 Mamm. Cap. p. 81, 1832; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 37, 

 Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 633, 1868 ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. 

 Mamm. vol. x, p. 291, 1836, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., Mamm. 

 p. 177, 1842 ; Ohen, Allgemeine Naturgesch. vol. vii, p. 1362, 

 1838 ; Laurillard, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 622, 1841 ; 

 Gervais, Diet. Sci. Nat., Suppl. vol. i, p. 262, 1840; Forster, 

 Descrip. Anim. -pip. 36 and 374, 1844; Wagner, Schrebcr's Sdug- 

 thiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 436, 1844, vol. v, p. 410, 1855 ; Schinz^ 



