12 CATALOGUE, OF UNGULATES 



F. ^pyceros melampus petersi. 



^Ipyceros petersi, Bocage, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 741 ; Huet, Bull. 



Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 479 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, 



p. 460 ; Flower and LydeMer, Study of Mammals, p. 341, 1891 ; 



Lydeklcer, Horns and Hoofs, p. 231, 1893, Great and Small Game 



of Africa, p. 323, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 244, 1908 ; 



Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iii, p. 25, 1897 ; 



W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 207, 1900. 

 ^Epyceras petersi, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. vol. viii) p. 79, 1907. 

 J3pyceros melampus petersi, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 229, 1910. 



Typical locality Angola. 



Distinguished from typical race by the presence of a 

 blackish brown blaze on middle of lower part of muzzle. 



98. 3. 20. 2. Skin, mounted, and skull. Membo Valley, 

 Angola ; collected by G. W. Penrice, Esq. 



Purchased (Gerrard), 1898. 



98. 3. 20. 3. Skull and skin, female. Coporole Valley, 

 Angola ; same collector. Same history. 



5. 1. 11. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. South Cuneni 

 Valley, on Damara border of Angola. 



Presented ly Capt. B. A. Cunningham, 1905. 



SUBFAMILY xii. SAIGIN^E. 



Eepresented by a single medium-sized and heavily built 

 existing species. Horns (absent in females) of medium 

 length, heteronymous, somewhat irregularly lyrate, heavily 

 ridged, and (unlike those of all other antelopes) amber- 

 coloured or whitish ; tail short ; nose inflated and prolonged 

 into a kind of downwardly bent proboscis, with the nostrils 

 opening downwards ; muzzle hairy ; small face-glands ; glands 

 in all four feet, comparable in structure, according to Pocock, 

 to those of a sheep rather than to those of a gazelle ; a pair 

 of small inguinal glands, placed close to the teats, which are 

 four in number ; a pair of tufted knee-glands ; lateral hoofs 

 present ; foot-structure not fully known ; tail short. Skull 

 with short premaxillse and nasals, a large and vaulted nasal 

 aperture, small supraorbital pits, shallow lachrymal depres- 

 sions, but no lachrymal vacuities ; two pairs of lower and 



