324 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Key to Subfamilies of Bovida 



Skull without anteorbital fossa 



No anteorbital gland in front of eye 

 No lachrymal-nasal sinus in skull 



Withers much higher than hips; horns rounded at the 

 base, projecting straight backward, curved back- 

 ward or spirally twisted, ringed at least at the 

 base Egocerince 



Withers not exceeding the hips in height; horns flattened 

 or depressed at base, without rings Bovince 



A well-developed lachrymal-nasal sinus; horns in male only, 

 recurved at tips, ringed Kobince 



A small anteorbital gland in front of eye 



Withers higher than hips; horns diverse in shape, but never 

 spirally twisted; skull without lachrymal-nasal 

 sinus; mammae, two Buhalina 



Withers not exceeding the hips in height; horns spirally twisted; 

 skull with a lachrymal-nasal sinus; mammae, four 



Tragelaphince 



Skull with a large anteorbital fossa in the lachrymal bone 



Anteorbital gland opening on face by a line of pores; nasal bones 

 usually long, greatly exceeding narial chamber 

 in length; horns short, projecting backward in 

 line with the snout Cephalophina 



Anteorbital gland opening on face as a rounded pore 



Nasal bones long, exceeding the narial chamber in length; ante- 

 orbital fossa a large pit usually occupying the 

 whole extent of the lachrymal bone 

 Hair bovine in texture; snout normal, the length ex- 

 ceeding the diameter of the orbit; foot resting 

 on whole under surface of hoof Neotragincs 



Hair peculiar in texture, pithy, and brittle; snout 

 short, the length less than the diameter of the 

 orbit; foot resting on tip of hoof only 



Oreotragincz 



