118 MAMMALIA. 



ANAT. 



Antilope furcifer, H. Smith, Linn. Trans, xiii. t. 2. 



A. palmata, H. Smith, Linn. Trans, xiii. t. 3, horns only. 



* Skull, female. Hudson's Bay. Presented by the Hudson's 

 Bay Company. 



Dr. Coulter brought a head from Mexico which had the face 

 dark brown, and the horns large, wide-spreading and much 

 hooked at the tip, like the A. palmata of H. Smith (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1826, 121). This is probably only a larger variety in the 

 summer fur. 



II. The Antelopes of the Desert. Nose broad; nostrils subval- 

 vular, and lined with bristles within. 



Antelopes of the Desert (Antilopeae desertorum), Gray, Ann. fy 

 Mag. N. H. 1846, 232; Knowsley Menag. 19; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1849, 138. 



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



I am not aware that this division was ever hinted at until pub- 

 lished in the Ann. fy Mag. N. H. for 1846. Mr. Turner observes : 

 " I will now proceed to the ' Antelopes of the Desert' of Mr. Gray, 

 a very well-marked natural group, consisting of two distinct ge- 

 nera, which have usually been widely separated. Mr. Blyth, 

 however, in the translation of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, hints at 

 their affinity, and Mr. Waterhouse informs me that he has long 

 held that opinion. Indeed he has placed the species next each 

 other in the Catalogue of the Society's Museum/' And again : 

 " A. pygargus has usually been placed among the Gazelles, where 

 it was left by Mr. Blyth, who speaks of it as leading f through 

 A. Caama, Bubalis, &c. to the Gnus.' Mr. Waterhouse, who in 

 the Catalogue of the Society's Museum uses the generic name 

 Antilope throughout, places this species between the Gazelles 

 and the others of its natural genus, to which the Gnu follows. 

 Mr. Gray, who had left it with the Gazelles in the List of Mam- 

 malia in the British Museum, has removed it to its true place in 

 his paper in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History." 



The reference to the Catalogue of the Zoological Society's 

 Museum does not justify these observations. In the edition 

 for 1839 I find the species placed in the middle of the genus 

 Antilope, intermixed with other subgenera, thus : 272. A. Dama ; 

 273. A, Pygarga; 274. A. Caama', 275. A. Gnu-, 276. A. Oryx; 

 277. A. leucoryx; 278. A. Sing-Sing (p. 41). 



The only observation I can find in Blyth respecting the sub- 

 ject is as follows: "A. pygargus, which seems to tend through 



