212 African Zoolugij. 



edge with white. Lachrymaiy slit, arched and extending 

 downwards and backwards from the inner canthns of each eye, 

 lower part of neck near breast with a strong hair comb, the 

 anterior portion of which is brown, the posterior portion white. -^ 

 Length from nose to root of tail two feet six inches ; length of 

 tail nearly two inches ; height at shoulder one foot seven inches 

 and a half, at rump one foot eight inches. 



Inhabits Africa, — hilly regions near the western branch of 

 the Nile. 



Obs. Thi.? species bears considerable affinity to the Redunca acoparia or 

 ' Ourebi of South Africa. 



Sub-genus Okfotragus. — Horns short, slender, vertical, ahd 

 parallel, with very few annuli; suborbital sinus compicttous, and L 

 marked with a dark spot ; head short, the superior edge of the 

 orbits projectiiig ; body and legs when compared with the size, 

 rather robust, hair of a singidar structure, being hard, fiat, 

 spiral, flexible, and erect upon the skin, wi(h the tips turned back 

 or reclining ; females hornless; in other respects resemble the 

 male; inguinal pores and two ma mmes 



Oreotragus typicvs. (Klipspringer.) Adult male twenty- 

 one to twenty-two inches high, three feet seven inches long ; 

 form robust; head short, round, and broad; horns about five 

 inches long, distant, round, vertical, slightly inclined for- 

 wards, obscurely wrinkled at base, and annulated in the middle, 

 tips smooth and pointed; le^s robust; pasterns rigid; fur 

 standing off spirally-twisted, hard, ashy at base, brown in the 

 middle, yellow at the tips, forming an agreeable olive. 



Inhabits the rocks and precipices of South Africa. 



A. Oreotragus, Gmel. and Auctor. A. Saltatrix, Bodd, 

 Sauteur des Rochers, Vosmaer, &c. 



Sub-genus Tragulus. — Hoins in the males only, placed near 

 or upon the orbits^ shorter than the cars, black, round, vertical, 

 distant, parallel, straight, inclining slightly forward or back- 

 ward, mostly without annuli or wrinkles, and without stria; the 

 ears long ; the body in general slender ; high on the legs; deli- 

 cate; head round; black space before and about the eyes; a 

 suborbital sinus; small black muzzle ; tail very short ; inguinal 

 pores; two mamma; no brushes; all monogamous or solitary in 

 various situations. 



Tragulus liupestris (The Steen-bok.) Adult male twenty 

 inches at the shoulder, twenty-two at ihe croup, three feet six 

 inches long; head oval ; snout pointed ; muzzle black, ending 

 ill a point upon the rirl<rc of the nose ; horns vertical, straight, 



