200 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Antilope lanata, Desmoulins, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 445, 

 1822 ; Laurillard, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 623, 1841. 



Antilope villosa, Burchell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. ii, p. 302, 1824, 

 List Mamm. presented to Brit. Mus. p. 5, 1825 ; H. Smith, 

 Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 251, 1827; Lesson, Hist. 

 Nat. Anim. vol. x, p. 290, 1836, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., Mamm. 

 p. 177, 1842 ; Gervais, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. i, p. 262, 1840. 



Antilope (Redunca) villosa, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. v, p. 339, 1827. 



Redunca capreolus, A. Smith, S.African Quart. Journ. vol. ii, p. 107, 

 1834; Harris, Wild Animals of S. Africa, p. 138, pi. xxv, fig. 1, 

 1840 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, p. 169, 

 1869. 



Eleotragus villosus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 165, 1843. 



Cervicapra capreolus, Sundevall, K. SvensTca Vet.-AJc. Handl. 1844, 

 p. 193, 1846. 



Eleotragus capreolus, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii, 

 p. 232, 1846, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 57, 1847, Knoivsley 

 Menagerie, p. 12, 1850 ; Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, p. 168, 1863. 



Eleotragus (Pelea) capreolus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 126, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. viii, p. 144, 1851. 



Pelea capreolus,* Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 90, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 29, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 99, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 238, 

 1862 ; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, pp. 125 and 297, 1889 ; Flower 

 and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 339, 1891 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, p. 85, 1892, ed. 6, p. 213, 1910 ; Nicolls and Eglington, 

 Sportsman in S. Africa, p. 33, 1892 ; LydekJcer, Horns and Hoofs, 

 p. 220, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 319, 1899, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 237, 1908 ; Lorenz, Ann. Hofmus. 

 Wien, vol. ix, Notizen, p. 60, 1894; Rendall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1895, p. 360 ; Sclater and Thomas, BooJc of Antelopes, vol. ii, 

 p. 189, pi. xlvi, 1897 ; W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. 

 vol. i, p. 200, 1900 ; Pococlf, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 911. 



Calotragus capreolus, Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, p. 191, 1853. 



VAAL RHEBOK. 



Typical locality Cape Colony. 



Size relatively small shoulder-height about 29 or 30 

 inches ; build comparatively slender and delicate ; coat soft 

 and somewhat woolly, although not very thick ; ears long 

 and narrow. General colour dull pale French grey, tending 

 to fawn on head and lirnbs, the front of the lower segments 

 of the latter being slightly darker ; a distinct blackish patch 

 on chin ; imder-parts scarcely paler than back ; tail, which 

 is somewhat bushy, reaching to about the level of the groin, 

 fawn-grey above at and near the base, white at the tip and 



* The name is not infrequentl} 7 given as P. capreola. 



