MAMMALIA. 115 



Antilope Americana, Desm. Mam. 478. 



Antilope Aplocerus lanigera, H. Smith, Linn. Trans, xiii. 38. t. 4 ; 



G. A. K. v. 865. 

 Mazama dorsata, Raftnesque. 

 Mazama sericea, Rajinesque. 

 Antilope (Aplocerus) Mazama, H. Smith, Linn. Trans, xiii. 33 ; 



Griffith, A. K. v. 865; Fischer, Syn. 482. 64?. 

 Aplocerus Americanus, Turner, P. Z. S. 1850. 

 Mazama seu Cervus cornutus, Seba, Thes. i. 69. t. 42. f. 3. 

 Rocky Mountain Sheep, Jameson, Wern. Mem. iii. 306. 

 Hob. N. America; Rocky Mountains. Mus. Linn. Soc. Mus. 



Zool. Soc. 



27. RUPICAPRA. 



Horns elongate, slender, round, nearly erect from above the 

 orbit, suddenly hooked backward at the tip. Nose ovine, hairy. 

 Muffle none. Fur soft. Skull with " a minute suborbital fissure, 

 but no fossa; the masseteric ridge ascending high before the 

 orbit ; the auditory bulla very small and compressed ; the basi- 

 occipital bone flat ; the incisors equal-sized, vertical ; the molars 

 without supplemental lobes." Turner. 



Antilope, Pallas, Misc. 4; Spic. 7-17. 



A. Rupicapra, Erxleb. S. A. 268, 1777; Desm. 1804; Illiger, 



1811. 



Capra, sp., Linn. ed. 6. 14. 1?. 

 Rupicapra, Fleming, Phil. Zool. 198, 1822; H. Smith, Griffith 



A.K.v. 182; Gray, Ann. $ Mag. N. H. 1846, 232. 

 Rupicapradae, J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64, 1828. 



1. RUPICAPRA TRAGUS. The CHAMOISE or GEMS. 



Yellowish brown, with a dark dorsal streak ; in winter blackish. 



Antilope Rupicapra, Pallas, Misc. 4; Spic. i. 7, xii. 12; Gmelin, 



S. N. i. 182. 

 A. (vera) rupicapra, Licht. Berl. Mag. vi. 171 ; Schreb. Saugth. 



1200. t. 279 ; Burchell, Trav. ii. 23 ; Desm. Mam. 477. 

 A. Rupicapra Rupicapra, Blainv. B. S. Phil. 1816, 76. 

 A. (Rupicapra) Rupicapra, H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 281 1., v. 863; 



Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. ii. 249 t. ; Reg. Anim. i. 264 ; Fischer, 



Syn. 481, 646. 



A. Rupicapra Persica, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 863. 

 Rupicapra pyrenaica, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 863; Bonap. Fauna 



Ital. 



Rupicapra Europsea, Ruppell, Verz. Senck. Samml. 183, 1845. 

 Rupicapra (hsemulicornis), J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64, 1828. 



