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III. Genus KOBUS. 



Kobus, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. pt. xii, pi. xxviii, 



1840 ; Biitimeyer, Abh. scliiueiz. pal. Ges. vol. iv, p. 60, 1877 ; 



PococJc, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1910, 916. 

 Kolus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mas. p. 159, 1843, (?) errorim. 

 Cobus,* Buckley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 284 ; Sclater and Thomas, 



Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 95, 1896. 

 Eobus, Zittel. Handbuch Palceont. vol. iv, Mamm. pp. 417 and 729, 



1893, errorim. 



Size large or medium ; build generally heavy. Horns of 

 male long, lunate or more or less sublyrate, and heavily 

 ridged for the greater part of their length ; muffle normal ; 

 rudimentary face-glands, f but no bare subauricular patch ; 

 tail relatively long, reaching about to the hocks, with a ridge 

 of hair on dorsal surface and a terminal tuft ; foot-glands 

 wanting ; inguinal glands absent, or represented by a single 

 pair of pouches ; coat usually hairy ; skull massive, with 

 large lachrymal vacuities, large auditory bulLne, and the 

 premaxilli^ reaching the long nasals. 



The distribution is practically the same as that of the 

 subfamily. 



The genus is divisible into the following three suljgeneric 

 groups : — 



A. No inguinal glands ; coat grizzled ; hair of back not 



reversed. Size large ; horns sublimate, inclin- 

 ing forwards superiorly; neck heavily maned... Kobus, 



B. A single pair of inguinal pouches ; coat not grizzled ; 



hair of back usually reversed ; neck not heavily 

 maned. 



a. Size medium ; coat long and rough, horns sublyr- 

 ate, with a more or less marked double (sig- 

 moid) flexure Onotragus. 



I). Size smaller ; coat typically short and smooth ; 

 horns sublyrate, without distinct double 

 flexure Adeno ta . 



* This is undoubtedly the proper Latinised form of the name, 

 which, according to the Strickland code, ought to be employed, 

 t See Pocock, oj). cit. p. 916. 



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