226 Zoological Society. 



chell informs me that it is the best food of any of the genus at the 

 Cape, being the only one which is moist and has any fat intermixed 

 with the muscle ; the flesh of the others is dry and hard. At Knows- 

 ley it breeds with the facility of domestic cattle, but they are ravenous 

 feeders, and appear liable to an epidemic. 



It should be remarked that the skin of the specimen shot by Burke 

 at the Cape (the female especially) shows several pale whitish cross- 

 bands on the hinder half of the body, similar to the streaks on the 

 Koodoo, showing the affinity of this animal to that species ; but I 

 could not observe these bands in the living specimens at Knowsley 

 Park. 



2. Oreas Derbiantjs. The Ging-e-Jonga. 



Pale reddish brown ; front of the face, the neck, the front part of 

 the under side, a spot on the front and hinder side of the upper part 

 of the fore- leg, the dorsal streak, dark black ; the belly, the front and 

 back edge of the upper part of the legs and under side of tail whitish ; 

 a broad half-collar in front of the shoulder, narrowed above ; fourteen 

 or fifteen narrow, waved, perpendicular streaks on each side of the 

 body white ; withers with intermixed black hairs : female, throat dark 

 brown ; crown reddish brown. 



Boselaphus Derbianus, Gray, Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. xx. 28C ; 

 Silliman's Amer. Journ. v. 279. — Oreas Derbianus, Gray, Knowsley 

 Menag. 27. t. 25. 



Inhabits W. Africa ; river Casaman. Called Ging-e-jonga. Mr. 

 Whitfield. Brit. Mus. Imperfect skin of male and female, and horns. 



B. The nose bovine, with a large coriaceous moist muffle, and a 

 narrow bald space on the upper lip. The animals have very 

 slender, elegant legs ; small hoofs and false hoofs ; conical, 

 subangular horns i with an oblique, indistinct keel. 



3. Tragelaphus ; Antilope (Tragelaphus), Blainv., H. Smith. 



Horns conical, subangular ; tear-bag distinct ; nape and back with 

 a more or less distinct mane : they are brown ; with spots on 

 haunches, crescent on chest, and inside of legs white, and a dark 

 dorsal stripe. 



* Face with a curved band between the eyes ; horns large ; 

 back cross-banded. Euryceros. 



1. Tragelaphus Euryceros. The Euryceros. 



Head pale brown ; broad band before the eyes, and two large spots 

 on cheeks, chin and front of upper lip white ; horns elongate, thick, 

 scarcely bent forward at the tip ; throat with long black hairs. 



Antilope Eurycerus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 18.36, 120. — A., n. sp., Afze- 

 lius, N. Act. Upsal. vii. 269. t. 8. f. 3 ; H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 361. 

 — Tragelaphus Euryceros, Gray, Knows. Menag. 27. t. 23. f. 1, horns. 



Inhabits W. Africa. Horns in Brit. Mus. and Zool. Soc. 



2. Tragelaphus Angasii. The Inyala. 



Black ; back with a dorsal streak and four or five bands on each 

 side ; head blackish ; narrow band before eyes, two small spots on 



