MAMMALIA. 63 



OSTEOLOGY. Head, t. J.f.l. 



Horns of male. Presented by Dr. Turnbull Christie. 



Antilope Christii, Gray, MSS. EM. 



DRAWINGS. 



Drawing of male and female, t. 156. 



The Chikara carries its tail erect when in rapid motion. Sykes. 

 An albino of this species now living in the Zoological Gar- 

 dens has white horns. 



6. ANTIDORCAS. 



Horns lyrate, short, black. Face tapering. Nose simple. Cru- 

 men moderate, distinct. Back with an expansile white fold or 

 streak. Hair close-pressed. Knees not tufted. Female with 

 small horns. Teats . 



South Africa. Living in large herds, migrating. 



Antidorcas, Sundevall, Pecora, 87 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 



116. 

 Gazella, sp., Gray, List Mam. B. M. 160 ; Cat. Osteol. Sp. B.M.- 9 



Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1847. xviii. 231 ; Turner, Proc. Zool, Soc. 



1849. 

 Gazella, 5, Knowsley Menag. 



1. ANTIDORCAS EUCHORE. The TSEBE or SPRING BOC. 



Pale brown. Face, throat, chest, belly, broad expansile streak 

 on back to base of tail, edge and inner side of limbs, white. 

 Face-streak and middle of forehead pale brown. Side-streak 

 oblique, dark brown. Young paler. Side-streak paler. Back- 

 streak distinct. 



Antilope Euchore, Forster in Itin. ; Sparrm. Act. Holm. 1780, 275. 



A. vera Euchore, Licht. Berl. Mag. vi. 169 ; Saugth. t. 7 ; Schreb. 

 Saugth. 1189. t. 272; Harris, W. Anim. Africa, t. 3, a head; 

 Burchell, Trav. i. 290, ii. 109. 



A. Gazella Euchore, Blainv. B. S. Phil. 1816, 75; Desm. Mamm. 

 455; Desm. Diet. Class. H. N. i. 441. t. . f . 1 ; Fischer, 

 Syn. 461. 629; H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 823. 



Gazella Euchore, Gray, List Mam. B. M. 160; Cat. Osteol. B. 

 M. 56; Knowsley Menag.; Turner, P. Z. Soc. 1849. 



Antilope Dorcas, Gervais, I. c. 261. 



A. Dorcas var. pygargus, Forster, in MSS. 62. 



Antidorcas Euchore, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 116. 



Antilope Marsupialis, Zimmerm. Geog. Gesch. 111. 427; Bur- 

 chell, Trav. i. 290. 



Antilope pygarga, Blumenb. Handb. 119. 



