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II. Genus DORCATHERIUM. 



Dorcatherium, Kaup, Oss. Foss. Darmstadt, pt. 5, p. 92, 1836; 



B&timeyer, Abh. scliweiz. pal. Ges. vol. x, pt. 2, p. 72, 1883; 



Lydekker, Cat. Foss. Mainm. Brit. Mus. pt. ii, p. 153, 1885 ; 



Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 385. 

 Hyemoschus, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xvi, p. 350 



1845, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 96, 1872. 

 Hyomoschus, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 682 ; Flower and 



Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 329, 1884. 

 Hycemoschus, Riitimcyer, Abli. scliweiz. pal. Ges. vol. x, pt. 2, p. 78, 



1883. 



Size larger than in Tragulus ; main metacarpals and 

 metatarsals separate, or the latter alone uniting partially or 

 wholly into a cannon-bone in old age; feet shorter and 

 stouter with larger lateral toes ; skull relatively short, with 

 premaxilke not reaching nasals ; dentition : i. , c. j, p. 3^4, 

 m. | ; tail medium. 



Typified by D. naui (Kaup, op. cit. 1836; from the Upper 

 Tertiary of Eppelsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, which differs from 

 the existing species by the presence (at any rate in many 

 cases) of the first lower premolar. 



At the present day the genus is restricted to the equa- 

 torial forest-zone of Africa. 



DOKCATHEKIUM AQUATICUM. 



Moschus aquaticus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 35, 1841, p. 68; 



Owen, Anat. Vertebrates, vol. ii, p. 487, 1866. 

 Hyemoschus aquaticus, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xvi, 



p. 350, 1845, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 42, pi. xxxi, 1850, Cat. 



Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 248, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 



p. 99, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 169, 1873; 



Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 269, 1862; Milne- 



Edwards, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 5, vol. ii, p. 133, 1864. 

 Hyomoschus aquaticus, Garrod, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 682 ; 



Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 329, 



1884 ; Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. x, p. 26, 1887 ; Pousargues, 



Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 87, 1897. 

 Hycemoschus aquaticus, Riitimeyer, Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. x, 



pt. 2, p. 78, 1883. 

 Dorcatherium aquaticum, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 385 ; 



Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 306, 1891 ; Lydekker, 



Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 515, 1899, Game Animals 



of Africa, p. 386, 1908. 



