140 MAMMALIA. 



Skin (bad state). S. Africa. Presented by W. Burchell, Esq., 

 LL.D. 



Female and males. S. Africa. 



Young. From M. Verreaux's Collection. 



Half-grown female. S. Africa. 



Var. 1. Smaller. Horns shorter, less diverging and more 



ascending. 

 Serolomootlooque (Antilopus Roualeynei), Roualeyn Gordon 



Gumming, Hunter's Life S. A. ii. 168, 178, 179. 

 Hob. Limpopo. Head Mus. Gumming. 



OSTEOLOGY. 



Base of skull, with horns. 



Pair of horns, separate. 



Horns. S. Africa. From Mr. Warwick's Collection. 



The two pairs of horns, named by Colonel H. Smith Bosela- 

 phus canna (a, b, in the List of Mamm. Brit. Mus. 155) ; one, 

 presented by Dr. W. Burchell, is certainly the horns of this spe- 

 cies, and the other appear to be those of a young male, Strepsi- 

 ceros Kudu. 



II. In the Asiatic Strepsiceres the horns are short, conical, an- 

 gular, subspiral, with an obscure oblique ridge. Tear-bag deep, 

 longitudinal. The hind leg much shorter than the fore ; shoulder 

 higher than rump. The nose bovine, with a large moist muffle. 

 Skull with " the nasal opening rather small, with the nasal bones 

 small and narrow ; a minute suborbital fissure ; no fossa, but a 

 smooth line upon the lacrymal bone; the masseteric ridge not 

 extending high; the auditory bulla moderate, bulbous, com- 

 pressed ; the basioccipital bone with the posterior tubercles mo- 

 derately developed, the anterior ones scarcely at all ; the molars 

 with supplemental lobes. The smooth line upon the lacrymal 

 bone terminates in a small foramen, but one side is continued for 

 some distance forwards upon the maxillary bone, where it ter- 

 minates in the same way." Turner. 

 Asiatic Strepsiceres, Gray, Knowsley Menag. ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1850, 146. 



4. PORTAX. 



The Character of Section. 



Damalis (Portax), H. Smith, Griffith A. K. v. 182; Fischer, Syn. 



625; J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64, 1828. 

 Portax, Gray, Ann. % Mag. N. H. 1846, 230. 

 Antilope Boselaphus, sp., Blainville, Butt. Soc. Phil. 1816. 



