ORYX. 



155 



b. Stuffed $ 



c. Skeleton $ 



(mted). 



d. Stufled $ 



head 



e. Skull, horns ^ Cawnpore dist. 



/. Skull, horns ^ 



g. Skull, horns ^ 



(castrated). 



h. Skull $ 



y. Skull $ Alwara, Jumna River 



k. Skull 5 Banda district 



I. Skull $ 



m. Skeleton 9 ....n 

 and skin juv. 



n. Skeleton $ 



0. Frontlet $ 



Barrackpore, Menagerie, 



1842, A.S.B. 

 A.S.B. 



W. Rutledge, 1S78, 



J. Cockburn, 1872. 



A.S.B. 



A.S.B. 



W. Rutledge, 18S1. 



J. Cockburn, 1881. 



J, Cockburn, 1881. 



A.S.B. 



Zoological Gardens, 1880. 



Zoological Gardens, 1878. 

 A.S.B. 



Genus ORYX. 



Oryx, Blainville Bull. Soc. Pkilom,, p. 75 (1816)*. 



Oryx gazella. 



Capra gazella, Linnceus Syst. Nat., 12th ed., i, p. 96 (1766). 



Antilope bezoartica, Pallas Spic. Zool., i, p. 14 {1767). 



Antilope oryx, Pallas Spic. Zool.y xii, p. 17 (1777). 



Antilope (Oryx) oryx, Blainville Bull. Soc. Philom., p. 75 (1816)*. 



Oryx capensis, Ogilby P. Z, S., p. 139 (1836) ; Harris Wild Game S. 



Africa, pi. ix. 

 Oryx gazella, Blyth Cat., p. 169 (1863); Selous P. Z. S., 1881, p. 755. 



The Gemsbok. 



Distribution. — South Africa; principally in the deserts of the 

 south-west, i.e., Kalahari and Damara land. 



a. Frontlet $ South Africa 



A.SB. 



Oryx beisa. 



Antilope beisa, Rilppell N. Wirbelth., p. 14, pi. v (1835). 



Oryx beisa, Gray Cat. Mamm. B.M., iii, p. 106 (1852); Blanford Abys- 

 sinia, p. 262 ; P. L. Sclater P. Z. S., 1881, p. 626, pi. liv ; Phillips P. Z. S., 

 1885, p. 931. 



Beisa Antelope. 



Distribution. — North-East Africa; desert country round Sua- 

 kim and Massowah and southward to Somali land ( Phillips) 

 and Kilimanjaro. 



a. Stuffed $ nr. Massowa, Abyssi- W. T. Blanford. 

 nia, 8-68. 



