SYNOPSIS OF THE 



A Pygarga, Auctor. Nimni of the Booshwarias. A. Dor- 

 cas, Pallas. A Pygarga, Ejusd. A Pourpree, Desmarets, 

 8^c. Blessbock of the Dutch. 



Icon. Schreber. 



Habitat. Caffraria. 



821. 14. A Mytilopes, Nob. (Broad-Tioofed Antelope.) 

 The male unknown ; the female two feet eight inches 

 high ; four feet two inches long ; head nine inches ; horns 

 one foot, slender, round, sublyrate, black, with thirteen or 

 fourteen obsolete rings, standing on a broad rufous spot ; 

 ears six inches long ; no lachrymary sinus perceptible ; in- 

 cipient dark muzzle between the nostrils ; space between 

 the eyes, mouth, under-jaw, breast, belly, croup and legs, 

 white ; a bar across the nose, neck, shoulders and flanks 

 lower part of buttock fulvous-ochre colour ; a space on the 

 withers and back, of a glazed whitish-gray, as in the 

 former; small callosities below the knees, and a dark 

 brown spot at the spurious hoofs; hoofs broad, flat, 

 rounded, black, muscle-shaped ; body rather heavy ; four 

 mammae. 



A Naso Maculata, Blainv. A. Nez-tache. A. Mytilopes, 

 Nob. MS. 

 Icon. Nobis. Specimen in British Mus. 

 Habitat. Western Africa. 



822. 15. A. Dama (Swift Antelope.) Adult male three 

 feet high at the shoulder, extremely light and elegant in 

 structure ; head broad ; nose ovine, small ; horns black, one 

 foot long, with twelve to sixteen annuli, lyrate, points 

 turned forward and inwards ; small lachrymary sinus ; ears 

 six inches long ; tail short ; knees covered by two rows of 

 bristly hairs, turned flat upon the joint, the points inwards ; 

 the head white, with a spot of bright rufous hair at the 

 base of each horn ; ears six inches long, outside at the root 



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