444: Mr. R. I. Poeock on some 



Tragelaphus with respect to the cutaneous glands, the 

 inguinals being present and similarly placed and the glands 

 between the false hoofs absent. 



The rhinarium also is like that of. Tragelaphus, except that 

 the area between the nostrils and the edge of the lower iip 

 is usually at all events wider. It is as wide as the inter- 

 narial septum in a specimen of selousl and wider in an 

 example of gratus. I have never seen it narrower, as i> 

 sometimes the ease in Tragelaphus. TAmnotragus appears 

 merely to differ from Tragelaphus in the length of the hoofs 

 and the nakedness of the posterior surface of the pastern 

 and fetlock. But, as Meinertzhagen has pointed out (P. Z. S. 

 1 ( J16, i. p. 377), there is sometimes a patch of hair in the 

 middle of tlie pastern between the false hoofs and the hoofs 

 themselves. But in two examples which came together 

 from the Congo to the Zoological Gardens the feet of the 

 male were naked behind, while those of the female had the 

 patch in question. 



Genus STiiKPsiciiitos, II. Smith. 



Strepsiceros strepsiceros, Pall. (p. 931). 



The fresh carcase of a hornless male, three or four months 

 old, from South Africa, is all the material of this species 1 

 have seen. 



The rhinarium has a narrow grooved philtrum and the 

 hair upon the upperside of the nose spreads forwards some 

 distance between the nostrils. Otherwise the rhinarium 

 resembles that of Tragelaphus. 



There is no trace of preor bit al gland. 



Inguinal glands also are absent. Possibly their absence in 

 this specimen Avas due to immaturity, since both Owen and 

 Ogilby agree as to their presence m the species. 'When 

 present they probably resemble in size and position those of 

 S. imberbis, of Tragelaphus, and Limno tragus. 



Pedal glands of the interdigital type are absent, but upon 

 the hind feet there are glands associated with the widely 

 separated false hoofs as in Taurotragus. On the inner side of 

 each false hoof there is a fringe of lung black hair growing 

 from a glandular thickening of the skin, the secretion of 

 which is discharged amongst the roots of the hairs and into a 

 hairless cleft between the thickening and the false hoof. 

 The skin of the middle of the area between the false hoofs 

 is clothed with short hair and is thin and not specially glan- 



