CLASS I. MAMMALIA: OBDER 9. EUMINANT1A. 



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THE LECHE AND POKEE ANTILOPES DISCOVERED BY LIVINGSTONE. 



Genus CEPHALOPUS : Cephalopus. — Of this there are several species. The Chousingha, 

 T. quadricornis, belongs to a group of antilopes which have four horns, and hence are arranged 

 by some naturalists, as a genus, under the name of Tetracerus. The Chousingha is two feet nine 

 inches long, and one foot nine inches high. The general color is bright bay above, and silvery 

 white beneath. The two superior or common horns are three inches long, smooth, black, erect, 

 and divergent ; the additional pair are blunt, stumpy, and three-fourths of an inch high. This 

 species is monogamous, and lives in pairs in the forests and thick jungles; it is common in all 

 the wooded districts of India, and is particularly abundant in Bengal, Bahor, and Orissa. 



The Chikara, T. tragops, is found in the same regions as the preceding. Like that it has four 

 horns, and is a wild and active species, only capable of being tamed by being taken young. It 

 is supposed that the Four-horned Oryx of ^Elian referred to this species. 



The Kcsty-Pied Chousingha, T. lodes, is an Indian species, described by Hodgson. 



The Full-Horned Chousingha, T. paccervis, is another Indian species. 



The Jungliburka, T. subquadricornutus, is distinguished by its front pair of horns being rudi- 

 mentary and tubercular. It is a native of Bombay. 



The Stein-Boc, Antilope tragulus, is one of the most graceful and elegant of the antilope tribe. 



shall find them nine feet only. The koodoo or tolo seemed smaller, too, than those we had been accustomed to see. 

 We saw specimens of the kuabaoba, or straight-horned rhinoceros, R. Oswellii, which is a variety of the white, R. 

 svmus, and we found that, from the horn being projected downward, it did not obstruct the line of vision, so that this 

 species is able to be much more wary than its neighbors. 



"We discovered an entirely new species of antilope, called Leche or Lechwi. It-is a beautiful water-antilope, of a 

 light brownish-yellow color. Its horns — exactlylike those of the Aigoeeros ellipsiprymntis, the water-buck or tumogo 



•of the Bechuanas — rise from the head with a slight bend backward, then curve forward at the points. The chest, 

 belly, and orbits are nearly white, the front of the legs and ankles deep brown. From, the horns, along the nape to 

 the withers, the male has a small mane of the same yellowish color with the rest of the skin, and the tail has a tuft 

 of black hair. It is never found a mile from water ; islets in marshes and rivers are its favorite haunts, and it is 

 quite unknown except in the central humid basin of Africa. Having a good deal of curiosity, it presents a noble ap- 



. pearance as it stands gazing, with head erect, at an approaching stranger." 



