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3. SUBGENUS ADENOTA. 



Adenota, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 129; Pocock, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 915. 



Relatively small antelopes, with short or moderately long 

 coat, not grizzled ; hair of back reversed ; neck not nianed ; 

 horns relatively short, sublyrate, without well-marked double 

 (sigrnoid) flexure ; a single pair of inguinal pouches. 



Distribution Equatorial and Southern Africa. 



The two species here recognised may be distinguished 

 as follows : 



A. Front of fore-legs black ; hair short Kobus kob. 



B. Front of fore-legs rufous ; hair longer Kobus vardoni. 



VII. KOBUS (ADENOTA) KOB. 



Antilope kob, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Anim. p. 293, 1777 ; Zimmermann, 

 Geogr. Geschichte t vol. ii, p. 124, 1780; Gatterer, Brev. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 84, 1780 ; Ciivier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. ii, p. 234, 1804 ; 

 Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. ii, p. 187, 1816, Mammal- 

 ogie, vol. ii, p. 457, 1822 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, 

 p. 1240, 1818 ; Lesson, Man. Mamm. p. 375, 1827 ; /. B. Fischer, 

 Synop. Mamm. p. 463, 1829 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 38, 

 Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 634, 1868 ; Laurillard, Diet. Univ. 

 Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 617, 1841 ; Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, 

 Suppl. vol. iv, p. 435, 1844, vol. v, p. 432, 1855 ; Fraser, Zool. 

 Typ. pi. xx, 1849; Temminck, Esquiss. Zool. Guine, pp. 190 

 and 199, 1853. 



Cerophorus (Gazella) kob, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Antilope forfex, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 221, 

 vol. v, p. 334, 1827; Lesson, Hist. Nat. Anim. vol. x, p. 209, 

 1836 ; Reichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 110, 1845. 



Antilope adenota, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, 

 p. 223, vol. v, p. 335, 1827 ; A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. 

 vol. ii, p. 209, 1834 ; Reichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 110, 

 1845. 



Kobus adansoni, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. text to 

 pi. xxix, 1840. 



Antilope annulipes, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. x, p. 262, 

 1842. 



Adenota kob, Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 14, pis. xiv and xv, 1850, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 129, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 

 vol. viii, p. 211, 1851, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 96, 1852, Cat. 

 Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 17, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 87, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 238, 

 1862; Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, 

 p. 174, 1869 ; Jentink, Cat. Osteol. Leyden Mus. (Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, vol. ix) p. 130, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (op. cit. 



