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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Typical locality probably Senegambia. 



Shoulder-height about 38 inches. Horns (fig. 24) as 

 described above, those of females thinner : general colour in 

 winter, when the coat is long and thick, nearly uniform 

 brownish grey, in summer richer and more rufous, except on 



FIG 24. HORNS OF ADDAX (Addax nasomaculatus). 

 From a photograph lent by Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd. 



head and neck ; tuft of forehead nearly black ; back of head 

 behind horns darkish brown ; lips and chin, a somewhat X-like 

 patch on face below tuft (sometimes divided by a downward 

 extension of the latter), the greater part of backs of ears, in 

 some instances a patch behind eye, legs, with the exception 

 of the under-mentioned patches, hind- quarters, tail, with the 



