142 MAMMALIA. 



Damalis picta (Nylgau), J. Brookes, Cat. Mus. 64, 1828. 



Antilope leucopus, Forst. MSS.; Zimmerm. Zool. 541. 



Portax Tragelaphus, Sundevall, Pecora. 



Damalis (Portax) Risia, H. Smith, G. A. K. v. 884. 



Portax picta, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. 154; Cat. Osteol. B. M. 



59. 



Tragelaphus Hippelaphus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, 138. 

 The Nyl ghau, Hunter, Phil. Trans. Ixi. 170. t. 5 <J, cop. Naturf. 



vii. 236. t. 2. 



Neelghau, Antilope Hippelaphus, Ogilby in Royle's Himal. i. 73. 

 Hippelaphus, Aristotle, Hist. Anim. ii. c. 5. 

 Nilghau, Shaw, Zool. ii. 32?. t. 189. 

 Neel ghae, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, 338. 

 Nilghaut, Buffon, H. N. Supp. vi. 101. t. 10 <?, t. 11 $, jun. ; 



Cuvier, R. A. i. 264; F. Cuvier, Mam. Lithog. t. 

 White-footed Antelope, Penn. Syn. 29. t. 6. f. 1, 2; Quad. i. 83. 



t. 13. 



Biggel, Mandelslo Itin. i. 122, 1658. 

 Tragelaphus Caii, Ray, Quad. 82? 

 Quadruped from Bengal, Parson, Phil. Trans, xliii. 465. t. 3. 



f. 9. 

 Hindostan Antelope, Penn. Syn. 29 ; Quad. i. 83 ; Shaw, Zool. 



ii. 329. t. 190. 

 Hob. India. 



Young. India. Presented by the Zoological Society. 

 Skin of head. India. 



OSTEOLOGY. Skull, fig. 2. p. 141. 

 Skull. India. 



ICON. 



Neelghau, Hardw. Icon. ined. B. M. n. 10,975. 1. 149 ? , n. 10,974. 

 t. 90, 96. 



Subtribe IV. Caprece. Forehead convex, elevated behind. 

 Chin of males bearded. Suborbital sinus none. Horns erect, 

 compressed, curved backwards and rather outwards, and fur- 

 nished with a longitudinal keel in front, deeper than wide at the 

 base, and with transverse ridges in front. Hoofs four -sided, 

 scarcely higher before than behind. The skull has " a small 

 suborbital fissure, no fossa ; the masseteric ridge ascending high 

 before the orbit ; the auditory bulla prominent and compressed ; 

 the basioccipital flat, with its processes developed ; the middle 

 incisors not expanded ; the molars without supplemental lobes." 

 Turner. 



" The occipital plane of skull forms an acute angle with fron- 



