96 MAMMALIA. 



Cervine Antelopes. Body rather heavy. Tail elongated, with 

 short hair at the base, and a tuft of longer hair at the tip. 

 Horns elongate. Generally of a large size. 



Cervine Antelopes (Antilopese Cervinae), Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. 

 H. 1846, 232; Knowsley Menag. 14; Proc. Zool Soc. 1849, 

 128. 



a. Neck not maned. 



19. ADENOTA. 



Muffle cervine, cordate, moderate. Nose hairy between and 

 over the nostrils. Horns sublyrate, ringed ; when young recurved. 

 Tear-bag none, or covered by a tuft of hair. Hair of back 

 whorled, of dorsal line and back of head reversed. Tail elon- 

 gate, hairy. 



A. Gazella, sp., Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 75. 



Antilope (Antilope), sp., H. Smith, G. A. K. v. ; Fischer, 



Syn. 624. 

 Adenota, Gray, Knowsley Menag. 14, 1849; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1849, 129. 



This genus is very like Eleotragus, but has a smaller, more 

 cervine muzzle and lyrated horns ; it differs from Kobus in the 

 form of the tail, and wanting the mane, and from both in having 

 a tuft of hair in the front of the orbit. 



* Horns short. Tail short, hairy. 



1. ADENOTA KOB. The ^EQUITOON. 



Pale brown. End of nose, inside of ears, chest, belly, inside 

 of legs and thighs, tip of tail, end band above hoofs, white. 

 Front of fore and hind legs, and end of ears and tail, black. 

 Hair of dorsal line reversed, with a whorl on the shoulder and 

 loins. 



Antilope Kob, Erxl. Syst. 293, from Buffon ; Desm. Mamm. 457; 



Fischer, Syn. 463; Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836. 

 A. Gazella Kob, Blainv. Bull. S. Phil. 1816, 75. 

 A. Antilope adenota, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 224. t. 184, t. 183. 



f. 3, 4, horns? v. 828; Fischer, Syn. 626, not Syn. 

 Antilope defassa jun., Ruppell. 

 Kob, Buffon, H. N. xii. 210. 267. t. 32. f. 1, skull. 

 Gambian Antelope, Penn. Syn. 39; Shaw, Zool. ii. 338, from 



Buffon. 

 Kobus Adansonii, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. , 



from Buffon. 



