

MAMMALIA. 655 



terminate in a point and sometimes reach as far as the croup of the animal. 

 The white tail has long, black hairs at its extremity. Antilope oryx PALL. 

 (Capra Gazella L., partly excl. of synon.), BUFF. Suppl. vi. PL 17, copied 

 in SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 257; this South-African species has very long 

 and straight horns, pointed at the tip, which may be compared with the 

 long tusk of the narwhal ; colour light grey with brown legs ; the knee of 

 the fore legs is white ; the long black hair of the tail sometimes hangs down 

 nearly to the hoofs. 



Catoblepas GKAY, HAM. SJL, Boselaphus BLAINV. Horns in both 

 sexes, broad at the base, at first diverging and slightly descending, 

 then recurved, ascending. Muzzle broad, naked between the nostrils. 

 Tail long, setose. Neck maned. 



Sp. Antilope Gnu ZIMMERM., BUFF. Suppl. vi. PL 8, 9, VOSMAER Beschr. van 

 den boschbuffel, Amsterd. 1784 ; ket wilde beest of the colonists of the Cape; 

 Antilope taurina, Catoblepas taurina and Gorgon HAM. SM., SMITH Illustr. 

 1. 1. PL 38, Cuv. R. Ani., fa. ill., Mamm. PL 92, fig. 2 ; the blaauwe wilde 

 beest. Both are very remarkable animals of South Africa, which in some 

 parts of the body present the form of a horse, in others that of the ante- 

 lope, with the head and horns of a buffalo. They live in the high, grassy 

 mountain- plains to the north of the Colony at the Cape, and perform 

 annually a journey towards the South, when the last-named species does 

 not pass further than the Orange river, whilst the Gnu penetrates into the 

 territory of the colony. 



Rupicapra BLAINV., Capella KEYSEKL. and BLAS. Horns in 

 both sexes near the middle of the forehead, round, small, erect, 

 with the tip hooked backwards. Lachrymal sinuses none. Two 

 glandular foramina behind the horns. False hoofs. Mammae four. 



Sp. Rupicapra cemas nob., Capra Rupicapra L., Antilope rupicapra PALL., 

 BUFF. xn. PL 16, SCHBEB. Saugth. Tab. 279; the chamois, die Gemse; of 

 the size of a goat, li ves on the Alps of Switzerland and the TyroL A local 

 (smaller) variety, or, according to some, a different species (Antilope pyre- 

 naica) lives on the Pyrenees. 



Oreotragus SlJNDEV. Horns in males only, short, subulate, 

 acute, erect, distant at the base. Head small. Lachrymal sinuses 

 small. Hoofs high, compressed; spurious hoofs subrotund, approxi- 

 mate. Tail very short. 



Sp. Oreotragus saltator, Antilope saltatrix BODD., Antilope oreotragus FORST., 

 GM., BUFF. Suppl. vi. PL 22, SCHREB. Saugth. Tab. 259; the Klipspringer 

 of the Cape colonists ; on the mountains of South Africa ; in Abyssinia is 

 found a smaller variety of a lighter colour. 



Hemitragus nob., Nemorhedus HAM. SM. Horns in both sexes, 

 annulate at the base, smooth towards the point, directed backwards. 



