MAMMALIA, 91 



Eleotragus Capreolus, Gray, List Osteol. B. M. 57. 

 Tragelaphus Capreolus, Ruppell, Verz. Senck. 181. 

 Hab. South Africa. 



Male. S. Africa. Presented by W. Burchell, Esq., LL.D. 

 Female. S. Africa. 

 Young. S. Africa. 



OSTEOLOGY. 

 Head and horns. South Africa. Presented by Dr. Burchell. 



18. ELEOTRAGUS. 



Horns conical, thick, diverging, bent back and then bent for- 

 wards at the tip. Face broad. Nose not swollen. Muffle rather 

 large. Crumen none. Fur harsh, of back more or less whorled. 

 Hoofs and false hoofs rather large. Inguinal pores distinct. 

 Teats four. Skull : " Nasal opening rather lengthened, the nasal 

 processes of the intermaxillary bones long, yet not always reach- 

 ing the nasal bones ; a large infraorbital fissure, but no fossa ; 

 the masseteric ridge ascending rather high ; the auditory bulla 

 large and swollen ; the basioccipital bone with its median groove 

 and tubercles well developed ; the median incisors expanded at 

 their summits ; a well- developed supplemental lobe in the first 

 true molar of each jaw, and usually more or less appearance of 

 it in those behind." Turner. 



Hab. Africa, in marshy places. 



Redunca, sp., H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. , 1827 ; Fischer, Syn. 



624. 

 Eleotragus 1, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1846, 232; Knowsley 



Menag. 12. 



Eleotragus, sp., Turner, P. Z. S. 1850. 

 Cervicapra, sp., Blainville, Butt. Soc. Phil. 1816. 

 Cervicapra, a and /3, Sundevall, Pecora, 60. 

 Cervicapra b. Redunca, sp., Gervais, Supp. D. S. N. i. 261, 



1840. 



Nagor, Laurillard. 

 Sylvicapra, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836. 



f Fur grisled, harsh, straight, with a subterminal pale band, 

 and often whorled. Head broad. Temple with a naked spot. 

 Muffle large, flat, extending behind the nostrils. S. Africa. 



1. ELEOTRAGUS ARUNDINACEUS. INGHALLA or RIETBOCK. 



Head broad. Temple-spot naked. Horns divergent, conical, 



tapering. Fur brown yellow, grisled. Hair pale brown, with a 



