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G. Caphicornis. 



Corniia in utroque sexu. 

 Sinns lachry malęs magni. 

 Fossa: interdigitales distinctK. 

 FollicuU inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce ąuatuor. 

 Typus est C. Thar {Ant. Thar, Hodg.). 



7. BUBALUS. 



Ccrnuu in utroque sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales exigui, distincti. 

 Fossa interdigitales magnae. 

 FulUcuU inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce duae. 

 Typus est Bubalus Mauritanicus {Ant. Bubalvs). 



8. Oryx. 



Cornua in utroąue sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales nulli. 

 Fossce interdigitales magnse. 

 FollicuU inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce ąuatuor. 

 Species sunt O. Capensis (Ant. Oryx), Leucoryx, Leucopheea, &c. 



9. Bos. 



Cornua in utroąue sexu. 

 Sinus lachrymales nulli. 

 Fossce interdigitales nuilsę. 

 FollicuU inguinales nulli. 

 Mammce ąuatuor. 

 Typus est Bos Taurus. 



" I have here confined myself strictly to generic characters; the 

 synonyma and discrimination of species \vill form the subject of a 

 future monograph ; in the mean time, with the assistance of the Ar- 

 ticle Antelope in the Penny Cyclopsedia, or, "with the proper cor- 

 rections, of Col. Smith's Treatise on the Ruminants in the fourth 

 volnme of Gi'ifiith's Translation of the ' Regne Animal,' the student 

 vv ill have no difficulty in referring any particular species to its appro- 

 priate genus. He will thus be enabled to judge of the correctness or 

 incorrectuess of the afRnities here indicated, and conseąuently to form 

 a tolerable estimate of the value of the characters hy which I propose 

 to distinguish the genera of ruminating animals ; aud indeed it is 

 principally from the wish to excite the attention of zoologists to 

 more extensive observation than I myself possess, that I have been 

 induced to publish the present analysis of my own investigations lA 

 this department of Mammalogy." 



Mr. Gould exlubited numerous examples of the genus Strijc (as 

 at i)resent restricted), from numerous ]iarts of the globė, including 

 Ihree undcscribed species from Australia, \vhich he characterizes as 

 l'ollows : 



