4 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



orifice leading to a hairy tube, usually tufted. General 

 colour uniform brownish, yellowish, or rufous, with or 

 without dark markings on face and limbs. 



Distribution co-extensive with that of subfamily. 



The eight species here recognised may be briefly diagnosed 

 as follows : 



A. Horn-pedicle relatively short; horns U-shaped 



when viewed full-face. 



a. Size small, shoulder-height about 3 feet 



8 inches B. buselaphus. 



b. Size larger, shoulder-height from about 4 feet 



2 inches to 4 feet 6 inches B. major. 



B. Horn-pedicle of medium height ; horns more or 



less of an inverted bracket-shape ( . ). 



a. Horns relatively slender, with middle portion 



inclining upwards B. tora. 



b. Horns stouter, typically with middle portion 



horizontal B. cokei. 



c. Horns more or less intermediate in form between 



those of B and D B. neumanni. 



D. Horn-pedicle very tall ; horns V-shaped in full 



face. 



a. A dark face-blaze, dark markings on shoulders, 



thighs, and fore-legs, and a whitish patch 



on sides of buttocks B. caama. 



b. Dark and light markings absent, or represented 



only by small patches on face and fore-legs B. lelwel. 

 Horn-pedicle very short and broad ; horns much 



incurved before sub-terminal elbow . . B. lichtensteini. 



I. BUBALTS BUSELAPHUS. 



Antilope buselaphus, Pallas, Misc. Zool. p. 7, 1766. 



Antilope bubalis, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. i, p. 12, 1767, xii, 

 p. 16, 1777 ; Midler, Natursyst, Suppl. p. 54, 1776 ; Erxleben, Syst. 

 Eegn. Anim. vol. i, p. 291, 1777 ; Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 

 p. 544, 1777, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. ii, p. 122, 1780 ; Gatterer, 

 Brev. Zool. vol. i, p. 83, 1780 ; Boddaert, Elenchus Anim. p. 143, 

 1785 ; Schreber, Saugthiere, pi. cclxxvii, B, 1787 ; Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat. vol. i, p. 188, 1788 ; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, p. 314, 

 1792 ; Donndorff, Zool. Beytrdge, p. 633, 1792 ; Bechstein, Ueber- 

 sichtvierfuss. Thiere, vol. i, p. 95, 1799, vol. ii, p. 645, 1800 ; Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 331, 1801 ; Virey, Nouv. Diet. Hist. 

 Nat. vol. iii, p. 525, 1803'; Turton, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 114, 

 1806 ; Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. p. 106, 1811 ; Lichtenstein, 

 Mag. nat. Freunde, vol. vi, p. 163, 1814 ; G. Fischer, Zoognosia, 

 vol. iii, p. 417, 1814; Afzelius, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. vol. -vii, 

 p. 220, 1815; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. ii, p. 241, 1816; Des- 

 marest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. ed. 2, vol. ii, p. 195, 1816 ; Goldfuss, 

 Mamm. vol. ii, p. 466, Schreber's Saugthiere, vol. v, p. 1171, 1820 ; 



