74 MAMMALIA. 



OSTEOLOGY. 

 Two skulls. S. Africa. 



The Ourebi live in the continuous swards of tall grass near the 

 sea-coast, but they are nearly exterminated near the colony, and 

 now chiefly confined to the country between the Uuzimvooboo 

 River and Port Natal. A. Smith. 



2. SCOPOPHORUS MONTANUS. The GlBARI. 



Temple spot large, deep (more than half an inch over), naked. 

 Fur greyish brown. Cheeks paler. Crown red brown. Orbits, 

 chest, belly, under side of tail, and middle of the inner side of 

 the upper part of the legs, white. End of tail and arched line 

 before the eyes black. 



Antilope montana, Ruppell, Zool. Atlas, t. 3; Fischer, Syn. 

 469. 



Tragelaphus montanus, Ruppell, Verz. Senck. 181. 



Scopophorus montanus, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 232 ; 

 Knowsley Menag. 7. t. 5; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 119. 



Hab. Eastern Africa ; Abyssinia ; Ruppell. West Africa ; Gam- 

 bia; Earl of Derby. Mus. Earl of Derby. 



Very like the former, but grey brown, and the temporal spot 

 much larger, deeper, more distinct and bald, both when alive and 

 in the skin, so that it does not depend on the stuffing. 



12. OREOTRAGUS. 



Muffle large. Crumen arched, transverse. Horns subulate, 

 elongate. Hoofs squarish, high, compressed, much contracted, 

 concave beneath. False hoofs large, blunt. Crown of head 

 smooth. Tail very short. Hair thick, goat-like, spread out. 

 Female hornless. Teats 2. 



Oreotragus, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 231 ; Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1850, 119; Knowsley Menag. t. ; Sundevall, Pecora; 



Harris, W. Anim. Afr. 

 Tragulus, sp., H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 1827; Fischer, ii. 424, not 



Pallas. 

 A. cervicapra, sp., Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816; Desm. Mam. 



460. 

 Cervicapra c. Tragulus, sp., Gervais, I. c. 262, 1840. 



1. OREOTRAGUS SALTATRIX. TheKAiNSior KLIPPSPRINGER. 



Dark, brown yellow, grisled. Hair grey, brown at the end, with 

 a short yellow tip, beneath whitish. Edge of ears and feet above 

 the hoofs black. 



