SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Icon. Lin. Transactions, vol. iii. Nobis. 

 Habitat. Baffin's Bay. Stony Mountains near the River 

 Jaiine ; may be only a variety of Furcifer. 



Sub-genus II. — Aigocerus. Horns very large, common 

 to both sexes, pointed, simply bent back, annulated, placed 

 above the orbits. Half muzzle ; no suborbital sinus ; no iu' 

 guinal pores ; tail descending to the houghs ; mane reversed ; 

 a white mark before the eyes ; throat and under-jaw some- 

 what bearded ; mammcB two ; stature large ; shoulders higher 

 than the croup. Reside in Africa. 



810. 3. A. Leucoph(sa (Blue Antelope.) Four feet 

 high at the shoulder ; horns slightly compressed, sci- 

 mitar-shaped, about twenty-eight inches long, closely 

 annulated, with twenty to thirty rings ; no strias ; ears 

 long ; colour silvery blue-gray; spot before the eyes ; bell}^ 

 and inside of the limbs, white; short white mane turning 

 towards the head ; hide black ; tail tufted at the end ; ap- 

 pearance of beard on the under-jaw. 



A. LeucophaBa, Auctor. Blauw-bock, Kolbe. Tzeiran, 

 Buffon, Sfc. 



Icon. Buff. Allaman, Nobis. Specimen in the Paris 

 Museum. 



Habitat. South Africa, rare. Last killed near Swellen- 

 dam. Cape of Good Hope. 



811. 4. A. Equina (Roan Antelope.) Four feet four 

 inches at the shoulder ; horns very robust, about twenty- 

 four inches long, strongly bent back, with seventeen to 

 twenty-seven prominent rings, more remote from the 

 orbits; ears nine inches long; hair coarse, undulating, 

 loose, mixed red and white ; beneath the throat longer, 

 whiter; white spot round and before the eye, formed of a 

 pencil of long hairs ; neck with short white reversed 

 mane. 



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