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140 MAMMALIA. 
Niet (bad state). S. Africa. Presented by W. Burchell, Esq., 
Female and males. 5S. Africa. 
Young. From M. Verreaux’s Collection. 
Half-grown female. S. Africa. 
Var. 1. Smaller. Horns shorter, less diverging and more 
ascending. 
Serolomootlooque (Antilopus Roualeynei), Rowaleyn Gordon 
Cumming, Hunter’s Life S. A. ii. 168, 178, 179. 
Hab. Limpopo. Head Mus. Cumming. 
OsTEOLOGY. 
Base of skull, with horns. 
Pair of horns, separate. 
Horns. S. Africa. From Mr. Warwick’s Collection. 
The two pairs of horns, named by Colonel H. Smith Boseda- 
phus canna (a, 6, in the List of Mamm. Brit. Mus. 155); one, 
presented by Dr. W. Burchell, is certainly the horns of this spe- 
cies, and the other appear to be those of a young male, Strepsi- 
ceros Kudu. 
II. In the Asiatic Strepsiceres the horns are short, conical, an- 
gular, subspiral, with an obscure oblique ridge. Tear-bag deep, 
longitudinal. The hind leg much shorter than the fore ; shoulder 
higher than rump. The nose bovine, with a large moist muffle. 
Skull with “ the nasal opening rather small, with the nasal bones 
small and narrow ; a minute suborbital fissure; no fossa, but a 
smooth line upon the lacrymal bone; the masseteric ridge not 
extending high; the auditory bulla moderate, bulbous, com- 
pressed; the basioccipital bone with the posterior tubercles mo- 
derately developed, the anterior ones scarcely at alls the molars 
with supplemental lobes. The smooth line upon the lacrymal 
bone terminates in a small foramen, but one side is continued for 
some distance forwards upon the maxillary bone, where it ter- 
minates in the same way.”— Turner. 
Asiatic Strepsiceres, Gray, Knowsley Menag.; Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1850, 146. 
4. PorTAx. 
The Character of Section. 
Damalis (Portax), H. Smith, Griffith A. K.v. 182; Fischer, Syn. 
625; J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64, 1828. 
Portax, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1846, 230. 
Antilope Boselaphus, sp., Blainville, Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816. 
