MAMMALIA. 65l 



Lachrymal sinuses in many. Supplementary hoofs in most. 

 Eyes at the upper margin of forehead, remote from the nasal 

 apertures, with head protracted forwards. Ears near the nape, 

 mostly long. 



The species of Antelopes are peculiarly numerous in Africa. Comp. on 

 this genus PALLAS Spic. Zool. I. pp. i 16, and Fasc. xii., LICHTENSTEIN 

 Ueber die Antilopen des nordlichen Africa, besonders in Beziehung auf die 

 Kenntniss icelche die AUen davon gehabt haben. Abhandl. der ATcad. der 

 Wissensch. zu Berlin a. d. Jahre 1824, Berlin, 1826, s. 194 240, with 

 fig.; LAURILLARD Dictionn. univ. d'Hist. not. i. (1841) pp. 6t2 626, 

 J. E. GBAT Synopsis of the species of Antelopes, Annals of not. Hist., Sec. 

 Ser. Vol. 8, 1851, pp. 129 146, 211 228. 



Various attempts have been made to separate this numerous genus into 

 subordinate divisions, or even to resolve it into different genera. The last 

 would be to be preferred, but it appears to me, after a comparative review 

 of the species, to be scarcely practicable, since although there be great 

 difference in habitus, still intermediate forms constantly present themselves, 

 and the characters moreover are of very inferior interest and importance 1 . 

 Many species present external resemblance to the deers, others to the goats, 

 some to the oxen, some even to the asses. In all instances the eyes are 

 placed much higher and more backwards in the antelopes than in the 

 deers, and the base of the horns is mostly placed forwards almost over the 

 margin of the orbit. The nasal bones are in most species much elongated. 



t With upper Up sulcate, hairy. 



Bvhalus vetemin, Acronotus HAM. SMITH. Head narrow, pro- 

 tracted. Horns nearly contiguous at the base, soon divergent, 

 then converging, with the subulate apex bent backward, common 

 to both sexes. Ears acuminate, long. Back convex, with shoulders 

 high. Tail moderate, setose. (Lachrymal sinuses small. Two 

 mammae. ) 



Sp. Antilope Bubalis PALL, (in part), Cuv., A. mauritania OGILBT, BUFF. 

 Suppl. vi. p. 14, Menag. du Mus. Livr. 5 (e*d. 8vo, I. pp. 346 355) ; of 

 the size of an ass, one-coloured purplish-russet; from the North of Africa; 

 known to the ancients, (PLiNius Vin. c. 15, &c.,) the cervine antelope 

 Antilope Caama Cuv., BUFF. Suppl. vi. PI. 15, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., 

 Mammif. PI. 92, fig. i (figure moderate, body too long), SMITH Ittustr. 

 of the Zool. of S. Afr., Mamm. PI. 30; very similar to the preceding, 

 but chestnut-brown with black forehead and black tail ; the hartebeest of 



1 This is chiefly true of the presence or absence of horns in the female ; a character 

 it appears to have no value, and, even if it had, could not well be employed in 

 the arrangement. 



