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MAMMALIA. 
Sub-Division III. — Horns bent back. 
Sub-Genus 3. — Alcelaphus. —Horns annulated, and with 
double flexures; in neither sex are they ridged; no inguinal 
pores, but with lachrymal sinuses. 
Antilope caama. — The Hartbeest. 
Plate XXIX. fig. 6. 
Fur betwixt bay and fawn colour, deeper on the back and 
legs, and forehead ; points of horns much turned back. Up¬ 
wards of six feet long. Inhabits Southern Africa. 
Sub- Genus 4.— Tragelaphus.— Horns spiral, more or less 
compressed, with ridges in both sexes, or in the males only; 
lachrymal sinuses sometimes awanting. 
Antilope scripta. —The Harnessed Antelope. 
Plate XXXII. fig. 8. 
Fur bright fulvous bay; sides with two white transverse and 
longitudinal bands; horns seven inches long, reclining. Four 
feet eight inches long. Inhabits Senegal. 
Sub-Genus o. — Oryx.— Horns large, erect, and pointed in 
both sexes, with a slight curvature backwards; annulated; hav¬ 
ing lachrymal sinuses; tail tufted. 
Antilope leucoryx. —The White Oryx. 
Plate XXIX. fig. 8. 
Fur white; a black triangular spot on the forehead, and 
another lozenge-shaped one on the nasal ridge, and a third 
through the eyes; and a transverse brown fillet above the knee 
joints in the fore legs ; mane short and brown; tail with a tuft 
at its point. Size of a small horse. Inhabits Arabia and 
Persia. 
