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plane of occiput, nlnetcea inclicg and a hnlf loiif^, five Inches 

 and a half from tip to tip, curved inwards and hackwards, 

 seven inches in circumference at hase, and marked with five 

 or six semi-annuli, and then with sixteen annul! ; size equal 

 to a slag : general colour dark rufous, dirty Mhite heueatli, 

 and tail with long hair. 



Inhabits Central Africa. 



A. Senegalensis, Auctor. A. Koba. 



Acronotus Lunata, H.Smith. (The Sassayby ?) An adult 

 female four feet six inches long, about three feet high at the 

 shoulder, two feet eight inches at the croup ; horns robust, on 

 the summit of the frontals turning outwards, and forming two 

 serai-circles with the points inwards, with twelve indistinct an- 

 nuli ; neck short ; body bulky : head broad ; dark streak down 

 the face ; general colour a deep blackish purple-brown above, 

 more fulvous beneath ; ears six inches and a half long ; small 

 lachrymary sinus ; facial line straight ; tail middle-sized, 

 covered with long black hair ; mamma; ? 



Inhabits South Africa, — the Booshwana country. 



The Sassayby, Daniell. D. Lunata, H. Smith, MS. 



Sub-genus BosELAPHtrs. — Horns common to both sexes, heavy, 

 very robust, placed on the smnmit of the frontals, transversely 

 wiitikled, straight or slightly bent with tips forward, brown or 

 grey in colour, tuisted on their own axis, which is in a prolonged 

 direction with theplane of the face, a ridge more or lessprominent 

 forming one spiral turn round them ; a laige sinus in the base 

 of the nucleus, the rest partially porous ; a muzzle; no suborbi- 

 tal sinus ; mane on the nech ; broad and deep dewlap edged with 

 long hair', females an udder of four mammce; stature veiy 

 large. 



Boselaphus Orcas. (The Impoofo.) Adult male above five 

 feet high at the shoulder, nine feet long, and weighing eight 

 hundred pounds ; forehead square ; muzzle broad ; facial line 

 straight; horns about two feet long, straight, with a ponderous 

 ridge ascending in a spiral form to near the tips ; proportions 

 of the body like a bull, above seven feet in girth behind the 

 arms ; neck thick ; shoulders very high ; larynx very promi- 

 nent ; dewlap fringed with long hair ; a crest of bristles from 

 the forehead passing upwards and recurrent along the ridge of 

 the neck ; croup depressed ; tail two feet long, with a large 

 tuft of coarse hair ; hide black ; general colour rufous-dun and 

 ashy ; females smaller ; horns more slender and longer, 



Inhabits South Africa, gregarious. 



Ant. Oreas, Pallas, Sfc. Coudou, Buff. Caana, Gordon. 

 Eland Gazelle, Sparrra. Impoofo, Poffo 0/ ^/te Carres. Eland 

 of tht Cape Colonists. 



