REDUNCIN.-E 199 



Horns large and curved; muffle usually normal, not 

 extending beyond notch of nostrils ; foot-glands 

 represented, at most, by the duct. 



a. A bare patch below ear ; no face-glands ; one or two 



pairs of inguinal glands ; tail bushy (as in Peled) Eedimca. 



b. No bare subauricular patch ; rudimentary face- 



glands ; inguinal glands absent or represented 



by a single pair of pouches; tail tufted Kobus. 



I. Genus PELEA. 



Pelea, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 126; Sclater and Thomas, 

 Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 187, 1897 ; Riitimeyer, Abk. scTiweiz. 

 pal. Gcs. vol. iv, p. 67, 1877 ; PococTc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 911. 



Size relatively small ; build light, and horns of male in 

 the form of nearly vertical spikes ; muffle large, swollen and 

 glandular at summit, and extending beyond posterior notch 

 of nostrils ; no face-glands or bare patch below ear ; tail 

 bushy ; foot-glands present in all four limbs, opening by a 

 short duct with a small orifice on front of pasterns above 

 hoofs ; no inguinal glands ; coat somewhat woolly. Skull 

 with relatively large lachrymal vacuities, relatively small 

 auditory bullae, and premaxillse not reaching nasals. 



The distribution of the single species is restricted to 

 South Africa. 



PELEA CAPEEOLUS. 



Antilope capreolus, Bechstein, Uebersicht vierfiiss. Thiere, vol. i, p. 98, 

 1799, vol. ii, p. 646, 1800 ; Thunberg, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersb. 

 vol. iii, p. 312, 1811; Afzelius, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. vol. vii, 

 pp. 251 and 262, 1815 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, 

 p. 1232, 1818; Schinz, Cuvier's Thierreich, vol. i, p. 393, 1821, 

 Synop. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 410, 1845, Mon. Antilop. p. 14, pi. xiii, 

 1848 ; Desmarest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 461, 1822 ; Lichtenstein, 

 Darstellung. Sdugeth. pi. viii, 1827 ; Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 377, 

 1827, Hist. Nat. Anim. vol. x, p. 291, 1836 ; J. B. Fischer, Synop. 

 Mamm. p. 467, 1829 ; Smuts, Enum. Mamm. Cap. p. 77, 1832 ; 

 Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 38, Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, 

 p. 634, 1868 ; Oken, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte, vol. vii, p. 1364, 

 1838 ; Forster, Descrip. Anim. p. 392, 1844 ; Wagner, Schreber's 

 Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 428, 1844, vol. v, p. 430, 1855; 

 Giebel, Sdugethiere, p. 315, 1855. 



Antilope (Gazella) capreolus, Lichtenstein, Mag. nat. Freunde, vol. vi, 

 p. 174, 1814. 



Cemas capreolus, Oken, Lehrbuch Naturgeschichte, vol. iii, pt. 2, 

 p. 740, 1816. 



