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 AFRICAN ZOOLOGY: 



By Dr. SMITH. 

 Continued from page 192. 



Sub-genus AtitiLOPE.—^Horns common to the males or.ly, never 

 truly ly rated, seated below the frontal crest, often sub-spiral or 

 spiral; suborbital sinus developed; inguinal pores ; small bare 

 space for a muzzle ; two mammce; knees often tufted. Gregari" 

 ous, or in families mostly on open plains. 



Antelope Melampus. (The Pallali.) The adult male above 

 three feet hig-h at the shoulder ; nearly five feet in length. 

 High on the legs ; the horns black, about twenty inches, ascend- 

 ling obliquely upwards and outwards, and midway at an obtuse 

 Ui^le, obliquely inwards, rough and coarsely annulated at base, 

 smooth at tip ; ears seven inches long ; general colour fulvous ; 

 ")rown on the back ; beneath and legs white, with a black spot 

 round the spurious hoofs, and a dark streak sometimes double 

 )n the buttocks ; tail white, eight inches long, without a tuft ; 

 10 brushes on the knees. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Antelope Melampus, Lichtenstein, Desmar. Pallab, Daniel!. 

 Pallah, Cuvier. VaWaXi of the Booshwanas. 



Antelope Forf ex, H.Smith. (The Gambian Antelope?) Male 

 ibout twenty-five inches high at the shoulders, rather bulky in 

 the carcass ; horns a foot long, black, close at base, slightly 

 "Dent forwards, then opening laterally with their points again 

 turned inwards, annulated wiih twelve rings, the tips smooth ; 

 forehead broad ; nose tapering with incipient black muzzle ; 

 Bars large, open, with tufts of long hair hanging out of the 

 Bonch ; lengthened lachrymary opening ; general colour fulvous 

 lun ; space round the orbits and inferior parts white ; tail short, 

 rith black tuft ; dark streak down the front of the legs, with 

 "^spot on pastern joints ; small dark brushes on knees ; female 

 smaller ; two mamma; ; no tufts on the ears. 



Inhabits Central and West Coast of Africa. ' ' 



Gambian Antelope, Pennant. 



Antelope Adenofa, C.H.Smith. (The Kob ?) Male about 

 twenty-six inches high at the shoulders ; horns at base nearly 

 vertical, spreading outwards, then bending back, tips slightly 

 forward, nine inches and a half long, robust, black, striated, 

 compressed at base, with ten semi-annuli on the anterior side; • 

 and the points smooth; head long, pointed, terminated with 

 Email black muzzle ; general colour fulvous bay ; space round 

 orbits, lips, and under parts white; a small glandulous tubercle 



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