Zoological Society. 213 



brown ; fur short, adpressed, upper part of nape and withers with a 

 small whorl of hair ; tail slender at the base. 



Lechee, Oswell, Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc. xx. 150, ISaQ.—^Kobus 

 Leche, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 23. 



Inhabits S. Africa ; bank of river Zouga, lat. 22° S. (Capt. Frank 

 Fardon). Oswell, 1. c. 150, Brit. Mus. 



This animal is nearly as large as the Water Buck. The horns are 

 very like those of that animal ; the neck is covered with short ad- 

 pressed hair, and has no appearance of a mane. 



B. Neck maned on the sides. 



19. KoBUS, H. Smith; Cervicapra, § Sundev. ; jEffocerus, Harris; 

 Kolus, Gesner, Gray. 



Horns elongate, sublyrate, bent back and then forward at the top ; 

 muzzle cervine ; tear-bag none ; inguinal pores none ; hair rough, 

 elongate ; neck covered with longer, diverging and drooping hair ; 

 tail rather elongated, depressed, hairj^ on the sides and below : females 

 hornless ; teats four ; animal ver}-^ large. 



1. KoBUS Ellipsiprymnus. The Photomok or Waterbuck. 



Rump with a whitish elliptical ring near the base of the tail, 

 brownish ; horns converghig at the tip. 



Antilope Ellipsiprymna, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1833, 47 ; Harris, W. A. 

 Africa, t. 14. — Kobus Ellipsiprymnus, A. Smith, Illus. Z. S. A. t. 28, 

 29. — Gray, Knows. Menag. 15. 



Inhabits S. Africa. Brit. Mus. 



The horns figured as A. Kemas^. (H. Smith, G. A. K. t. 181. f. 6) 

 appear to belong to this species. 



2. Kobus Sing-Sing. The Sing-Sing. 



Anal ring none. Reddish or yellowish grey brown, rather greyer 

 on the shoulders ; nose, lips and hinder part of the thighs, under the 

 neck, from the ears to the gullet, a streak over each eye, and ring 

 above the hoofs and false hoofs white ; belly and legs blacker ; end 

 of tail, and legs from shoulder to hough black. Female greyer ; belly 

 and upper part of legs paler. 



Antilope Sing-Sing, Bennett, Waterhouse, Cat. Zool. Soc. Mus. 

 41. n. 378. — A. defassa, Riippell, Abyss, t. 3. — A. unctuosa, Laur., 

 D'Orbig. Diet. Univ. H. N. i. t. 622. J. good. —A. Koba, Ogilby, 

 Penny Cyclop, ii. 79. fig. ?; P. Z. S. 1836, not Erxleben.— ifofia, 

 Buffon, H. N. xii. 210, 267. t. 32. f. 2, horns't— Senegal Antelope, 

 Pennant, Syn. 38 (part from Buffon only). — Kobus Sing-Sing, Gray, 

 Knows. Menag. 15. 



Inhabits N. and W. Africa; Senegal; Gambia, where it is called 

 Kassimause and Kob ( Whitfield) . Brit. Mus. Abyssinia {Riippell) . 

 Mus. Frankfort. 



This species varies much in the tint of the colouring, and in the 

 length of the hair in the different seasons. In summer they are 

 covered with very short, closely pressed fur, letting the skin be seen 

 between the hairs. In the cold weather, and in England, the fur is 



