172 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Subfamily ix.— MADOQUINiE. 



Very small antelopes, with short, spike-like horns in the 

 males, distinguished from the Neotragince by the small size 

 of the muffle, the muzzle being hairy above, almost or quite 

 to the front angles of the nostrils. Face-glands present or 

 absent ; foot-glands apparently always present, but inguinal 

 glands wanting ; foot-glands more or less tubular, with the 

 skin of the back of the pasterns closely folded at the heels ; * 

 apparently one pair of teats, in female ; tail short, nasals 

 more or less shortened, and premaxillse elongated. 



The distributional area comprises Ethiopian Africa, 

 exclusive of the south-eastern and southern districts. 



The two genera of the subfamily are distinguished as 

 follows : — 



A. Hoofs more or less elongated, with the lower surface 



normal, and the heel-tie f formed by a simple fold 



of skin ; face-glands present Madoqua. 



B. Hoofs short, with pad-like lower surface ; heel-tie 



forming a double fold, of which the front one 

 projects as a kind of ridge, so as to make a kind 

 of lip to the orifice of the foot-gland ; face-glands 

 wanting Dorcotragus. 



I. Genus MADOQUA. 



Madoqua, Ogilbij, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 137 ; Sclater and Thomas^ 

 Boole of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 67, 1895 ; Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1910, p. 876. 



Neotragus, Sundevally K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 191, 

 1846, nee H. Smith. 



Size very small, females distinctly larger than males ; 

 muzzle more or less elongated, so as to form a kind of 

 flexible proboscis, of which the tip is hairy, with the 

 exception of the lower part of the nasal septum ; crown of 

 head tufted ; ears moderate ; small face-glands, of which the 

 small orifice (at least in 31. ^^Ai/Zi/m) forms a vertical 

 crescentic slit, with its concavity looking backwards, situated 

 in the centre of an oval patch of bare skin just in front of 



* This term, here and elsewhere, is employed in the sense assigned 

 to it by Pocock {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 844), namely, the hind part 

 of the supporting area of the hoofs. 



t The integument connecting the heels. 



