34 TtlE SPECIES OF THE ANTELOPE- 



uot be auy reason to separate generically the Grysbok 

 from the Steenbok and its allies. If however it later on ap- 

 pears that the specimen had lost its supplementary hoofs, 

 then I strongly incline to bring the Gryshoh (melanotis) 

 into another genus, as more authors have done before, 

 viz. Calotragus. 



After having separated the Gryshok from the Steenbok 

 in another genus there remain several species agreeing 

 with the latter by having no accessory hoofs and which 

 would belong with it to the genus Rhaphicerus, understood 

 in the sense given to it by Dr. Sclater and Mr. Oldfield 

 Thomas in their splendid work on the Antelopes. Now 

 under this Raphicerine-group Hamilton Smith (Supplement 

 to the Order Ruminantia, 1827, p. 252) headed only two 

 East-Indian species, viz. Antilope acuticornis and subulata, 

 both species based solely upon incomplete skulls; their 

 specific validity therefore at present being accepted by no 

 other scientific man. The generic title Bhaphicerus thus 

 cannot be accepted, having moreover nothing at all to do 

 with the Grysbok or Steenbok. The generic title Calotragus 

 being preoccupied by the Grysbok, we accept for the 

 Steenbok and its allies Fitzinger's Pediotragus as generic 

 name (Die Gattungen der Familie der Antilopen nach ihren 

 natürlichen Verwantschaft, 1869). The following paper 

 intends to review the species of the latter genus. 



Dr. Sclater and Mr. Oldfield Thomas in the Book of 

 Antelopes, p. 41, accept as specific title of the Steenbok, 

 the name campestris given by Thunberg. We find a des- 

 cription of his collections in » Mémoires de 1' Académie im- 

 périale des sciences de St. Pétersbourg", 1811, pp. 298 — 323; 

 it runs as follows (p. 313): 36 » Antilope Campestris, Steen- 

 »Bock, cum prioribus vulgaris inhabitat campos inter urbem 

 »et catenam montium, sabulosos, fructiculosos. Parva est, 

 » supra rufa, subtus paulo pallidior. Cornua hujus subulata 

 »sunt, recta, basi digitum crassa absque annulis, suberecta, 

 »fusca, palmaria. Linea frontalis fusca. Femina inermis. Haec 

 »quoque species hortis europaeorum noxia. Verosimiliter 



Notes from the Lieyden Museuiïi, Vol. 3CXII. 



