226 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



1. SUBGENUS KOBUS. 



Large, heavily-built antelopes, with coarse, grizzled coat, 

 not reversed on back, heavily maned neck, and, in the males, 

 long, stout sublunate, forwardly inclined horns. 



The two species are distinguished as follows : 



A. A white elliptical band on rump K. ellipsiprymnus. 



B. No white rump -band K. defassa. 



Distribution co-extensive, in suitable localities, with that 

 of the genus. 



I. KOBUS ELLIPSIPKYMNUS. 



Antilope ellipsiprymnus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 47, Penny 

 Encylopcedia, vol. ii, p. 88, 1834 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, 

 p. 38; Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. iv, p. 434, 

 1844, vol. v, p. 434, 1855; Peters, Eeise nacJi Mossambique, 

 Sdugeth. p. 189, 1852. 



Aigoceros ellipsiprymnus, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii, 

 p. 186, 1834. 



Aigocerus ellipsiprymnus, Harris, Wild Sports S. Africa, p. 387, 

 1839, ed. 5, p. 351, 1852, Wild Anim. S. Africa, p. 71, pi. xiv, 

 1840. 



Kobus ellipsiprymnus, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. 

 pt. xii, pis. xxviii and xxix, 1840 ; Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 1, vol. xviii, p. 232, 1846, ser. 3, vol. iv, p. 296, 1859, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1850, p. 130, Knowsley Menagerie,^ p. 15, 1850, Cat. Un- 

 gulata Brit. Mus. p. 99, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 15, 

 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 86, 1873 ; Gerrard, 

 Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 239, 1862 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1864, p. 101 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber ~k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, 

 pt. 1, p. 176, 1869 ; Drummond, Large Game S. Africa, p. 426, 

 1875 ; Brehm, Thierleben, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 224, 1880 ; 

 Flower and Garson, Cat. OsteoL Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, 

 p. 268, 1884 ; Jentink, Cat. Osteol. Leyden Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 vol. ix) p. 131, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (ibid. vol. xi) 

 p. 159, 1892, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. ix, p. 172, 1887 ; Nicholls 

 and Eglington, Sportsman in S. Africa, p. 44, 1892 ; True, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xv, p. 471, 1892 ; Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1904, vol. i, p. 4, 1910, p. 916 ; 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. 

 Freunde, 1905, p. 93 ; Broun, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, vol. ii, p. 296 ; 

 Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1910, p. 409, Mitt. Zool. 

 Mus. Berlin, vol. v, pt. 3, p. 556, 1911 ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. 

 Mus. Madrid, p. 126, 1912. 



Antilope ((Egocerus) ellipsiprymnus, Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regne 

 Anim., Mamm. p. 180, 1842. 



Kolus ellipsiprymnus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 1843. 



