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groups, which appear to me natural, then there 1s no difficulty in 
finding neat characters for the definitions of the families.” 
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SYNOPSIS OF THE SUBTRIBES. 
I. The horns round or compressed, without any raised keel on 
the mner front angle. 
1. The horns smoothish, spread out on the sides, cylindrical 
or depressed at the base, the knee (or wrist) below the middle of 
the fore-leg—Bovee. 
2. The horns conical, bent back, cylindrical or compressed, 
and ringed at the base, the knee (or wrist) im the middle of the 
fore-leg—Antilopee. 
If. The horns subangular with a more or less distinct ridge 
on the front angle, the knee in the middle of the fore-leg. 
3. The horns subspiral, erect; crumen distinct; forehead 
flat; male not bearded.—Strepsiceree. 
; 4. The horns recurved, compressed; crumen none; forehead 
concave ; male bearded—Capree. 
5. The horns spiral, bent out on the sides; crumen none; 
forehead convex; male not bearded—Ovee. 
The position of the knee is the external mark of the shortness 
of the cannon bone, compared with the length of the ulna or 
fore-arm bone. 
Section 1. The horns round or compressed, without any 
raised keel on the inner front angle—Levicornia. 
Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1847, 230. 
Subtribe I. Bovee. The horns smoothish, spread out on the 
sides, cylindrical or depressed at the base ; situated on the frontal 
ridge and bent laterally outward, and recurved at the tip. The 
nose is broad, with the nostrils on the side. The skull has no 
suborbital pit or fissure ; the cutting-teeth are nearly equal-sized, 
and slightly shelving outwards. The knee (or wrist) below the 
middle of the fore-leg, the cannon bone bemg shorter than the 
fore-arm bone. 
Bovee, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1847, 230; Gleanings Knows- 
ley Menag. 
Bos, Linn. S. N. i.; Gmelin, S. N. 1. 202; Illiger, Prod. 107 ; 
Cuv. R. A.i. 278; Blainv. B. S. Philom. 1816, 76; Turner, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1849. 
ey part., Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, 138; Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. 
1847. 
Bovina and Antilopina, part., Sundevall, Pecora. 
Taurus, Rafinesque, Anal. Nat. 56, 1815. 
