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DR. A. Gt^NTHER ON TWO 



[Jan. 6, 



The peculiar conformation of the facial bones is clearly in relation 

 to the developed distensible nasal cavity of this animal. The roof 

 of the nasal cavity is supported by cartilage rather than by bone, 

 to admit of greater flexibility; hence the reduction of the nasal 



Fig. 5. 



Fig. 6. 



Fig. 5. Skull of Neotragus kirkii ; upper view. 



Fig. 6. Upper view of ifacial bone of Neotragus saltianus. 



bones in Neotragus is perfectly analogous to a similar structure in 

 the Saiga Antelope and in the Tapirs. 



Since I vprote the preceding remarks Mr. Sclater has kindly 

 placed in my hands a specimen which he had received from Mr. 

 R. Trimen, Curator of the South-African Museum. It had been 

 obtained in Damara Land, and proves to be a third species of this 

 genus, for which I propose the name of Neotragus damarensis. 



The specimen is the skin of an adult female, from which I have 

 had the skull extracted. 



Externally this species resembles so much the Abyssinian iV". 

 saltianus that it might be taken for a variation of colour. The 

 crest of long cranial hairs is more decidedly black behind than I 

 have seen it in Abyssinian specimens, the majority of the cranial 

 hairs being broadly annulated with black and yellow. The back of 

 the trunk is finely grizzled with black and brownish yellow, the 

 latter colour being replaced behind by grey. The black rings of all 



