2IS African Zouhgy. 



height at croup eighteen inches. — In the female the colours are 

 paler. 



Inhabits South Africa, — in forests about Port Natal. 



Sub-genus Neotragus — Horns in the males only, horizontal, 

 very small, with a few annuli or semi-annuli, black, -pomled; 

 no suborbital slit; head rovnd ; nose pointed, with a small 

 muzzle; tail short; females two mamma; size very diminutive. 



Neotragus Pygmea (TlieGuevei.) Adult male about eleven 

 inches high at the shoulders ; nearly twenty inches in length ; 

 horns one inch and a quarter long, high on the head, rather 

 close, bulky at base, with one or two prominent annuli, points 

 sharp and black ; a small lachrymary opening, but no slit ; ears 

 short, round ; general colour bright bay, beneath whitish ; 

 female duller in colours ; smaller. 



Inhabits Guinea, Central Africa. 



Royal Antelope, Pen. King of the Harts, Bosman. A. 

 Pigmea, Shaw. Cervula Parvula Africana, Seba. Chevrotain 

 de Guinee, Buff. 



Neol) agus Madokn , (Salt's Antelope.) Animal very small ; 

 horns one inch and a quarter long, very slender, recumbent, 

 points slightly turned forward, six or seven semi-annuli at base; 

 ears broad, oval; hair of the forehead very close, short, and 

 fine ; no lachrymary sinus ; colour of the head pale fulvous ; 

 pasterns long; hoofs very long, pointed, horn colour. 



Inhabits Abyssinia. 



A. Madoka, C. H. Smith MS. A. Saltiana, Blainv. Dcsmar 

 Madoka, in Abysinia, 



Sub-genus TRAGELAPirrs. — Horns in the males only? with 

 ridges forming angles, which turn somewhat spirally, sealed high 

 on the frontals, reclining ; small or naked spot for a JumvAe; no 

 lachrymary opening; colours remarkably diversified with white 

 spots and streaks; form elegant, though receding from the typical 

 structure of true Antelopes, and assuming that of Goats ; females 

 with four mammae. 



Trngelaphus Sylvatica. (The Boschhok.) The adult male 

 about two feet eight inches high, and five feet three inches in 

 length ; head seven inches ; horns ten inches long, marked 

 with an obsolete ridge in front, and one in rear, horizontal, 

 spiral and snblyrate, black, and closely annulatcd at base ; 

 general colour brilliant chesniit brown above, and marked with 

 a narrow white streak along the spine : several round spots on 



