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between-the Gazelles and the others of its natural genus, to which 
the Gnu follows. Mr. Gray, who had left it with the Gazelles in the 
‘List of Mammalia’ in the British Museum, has removed it to its 
true place in his paper in the ‘ Annals and Magazine.’ 
CATOBLEPAS. 
The general characters of the skull the same as in Alcelaphus ; but 
the depression before the orbit less marked ; the occiput rather less 
prolonged, and its base, together with the auditory bulla, broader. 
Horns broad at the base, inclining more or less downwards and 
outwards, and then bent upwards. 
Hab. Africa. 
C. gnu. C. taurina. 
The next genus is included by Mr. Gray among his ‘Caprine 
Antelopes,”’ but differs from them in having a suborbital sinus or 
gland, of large size in some species, and of peculiar structure, opening 
externally by a single pore. Their nasal bones resemble those of the 
domestic Sheep, and their structure being altogether rather heavy, 
they might be called Ovine Antelopes. 
NEMORHZEDUS. 
No suborbital fissure ; the fossa rounded, shallow, very variable in 
size, sometimes very minute ; the nasal bones rather short and broad, 
joining the maxillaries only by the interposition of some imperfect 
ossification or separated from them altogether; the masseteric ridge 
extending high before the orbit ; the auditory bulla very small; the 
basioccipital bone broad, with moderately developed eminences ; the 
middle incisors slightly expanded at their summits; the molars 
without supplemental lobes. 
Horns rising behind the orbits, annulated and wrinkled at the base, 
inclined and curved backwards. 
Hab. Yndia and its islands. 
C. bubalina. C. Sumatrensis. C. goral. 
This genus is too well-marked by nature to admit of subdivision. 
Although the “‘tear-bag”’ is said to be wanting in the Goral, there 
is certainly a slight depression upon the lacrymal bone, and the pore 
with which the gland opens may be so small in this species as to 
escape detection in dried specimens; but if it be really absent, the 
instances of the genera Gazel/a and Ovis must warn us against found- 
ing a genus solely on the want of this organ, while on the other hand, 
a difference in its structure seems to be of great zoological import- 
ance. 
Since the foregoing observations were written, I have perused Mr, 
B. H. Hodgson’s interesting account of the Budorcas taxicolor, in 
the ‘ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ and a glance at the 
representations of the skull indicates very plainly that it is closely 
allied to Nemorhedus, to which Mr. Hodgson admits certain resem- 
blances, and that it has no relationship with the Gnu, or the Musk 
The characters that I assigned to Nemorhedus would appear 
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