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3. Subgenus ADENOTA. 



Adenota, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 129; PococJi, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 915. 



Relatively small antelopes, with short or moderately long 

 coat, not grizzled ; hair of back reversed ; neck not maned ; 

 horns relatively short, sublyrate, without well-marked donljle 

 (sigmoid) flexure ; a single pair of inguinal pouclies. 



Distribution Equatorial and Southern Africa. 



The two species here recognised may be distinguished 

 as follows : — 



A. Front of fore-legs black ; hair short Kobus Tcoh. 



B. Front of fore-legs rufous ; hah- longer Kobus vardoni. 



VII. KOBUS (ADENOTA) KOB. 



Antilope kob, Erxleben, Sijst. Begn. Anim. p. 293, 1777; Zimmermann, 

 Geogr. GeschichtCf vol. ii, p. 124, 1780 ; Gatterer, Brev. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 84, 1780 ; Citvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. ii, p. 234, 1804 ; 

 Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. ii, p. 187, 1816, Mammal- 

 ogie, vol. ii, p. 457, 1822 ; Goldfuss, Sclireber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, 

 p. 1240, 1818 ; Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 375, 1827 ; /. B. Fiseher, 

 Synoj). Mamm. p. 463, 1829 ; Oiuen, Proe. Zool. Soe. 1836, p. 38, 

 Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 634, 1868; LaiLviUard, Diet. Univ. 

 Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 617, 1841 ; Wagner, Sehreber's Sdugthiere, 

 Supj^l. vol. iv, p. 435, 1844, vol. v, p. 432, 1855 ; Fraser, Zool. 

 Typ. pi. XX, 1849 ; Temminch, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, pp. 190 

 and 199, 1853. 



Cerophorus (Gazella) kob, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Antilope forfex, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, \o\. iv, p. 221, 

 vol. V, p. 334, 1827 ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. Anini. vol. x, p. 209, 

 1836; Beichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 110, 1845. 



Antilope adenota, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, 

 p. 223, vol. V, p. 335, 1827; A." Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. 

 vol. ii, p. 209, 1834 ; Beichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 110, 

 1845. 



Kobus adansoni, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. text to 

 pi. xxix, 1840. 



Antilope annulipes. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. x, p. 262, 

 1842. 



Adenota kob. Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 14, pis. xiv and xv, 1850, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 129, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 

 vol. viii, p. 211, 1851, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Miis. p. 96, 1852, Cat. 

 Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 17, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 87, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 238, 

 1862; Fitzinger, Sitzber. h. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, 

 p. 174, 1869 ; Jentinli, Cat. Osteol. Ley den Mus. (Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, vol. ix) p. 130, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (ojy. cit. 



