SYNOPSIS OP THE 



dark streak on the flanks; small callosity on the knees ; tail 

 five inches, tufted with black ; dark-brown tuft of hair on 

 the anterior face of the pasterns to the division of the hoofs ; 

 female resembled the male ; horns only four inches long. 



Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat. Shores of the Persian Gulf, Eastern Arabia. 



Sub-genus V. — Antilope. Horns common to the males 

 only, never truly lyrated, seated below the frontal crest, often 

 sub-spiral or spiral ; suborbital sinus developed ; inguinal 

 pores ; small bare space for a muzzle ; two mammce ; knees 

 often tufted. Gregarious, or in families mostly on open 

 plains. 



826. 19. A. Melampus (the Pallah.) The adult male 

 above three feet high at the shoulder; nearly five feet in 

 length. High on the legs ; the horns black, about twenty 

 inches, ascending obliquely upwards and outwards, and 

 midway at an obtuse angle, obliquely inwards, rough and 

 coarsely annulated at base, smooth at tip; ears seven 

 inches long ; general colour fulvous ; brown on the back ; 

 beneath and legs white, with a black spot round the spu- 

 rious hoofs, and a dark streak sometimes double on the 

 buttocks ; tail white, eight inches long, without a tuft ; no 

 brushes on the knees. 



A. Melampus, Lichtenstein, Desjyiar. Pallah, Daniell. 

 A. Pallah, Guv. Pallah of the Booshwanas. 

 Icon. Lichtenstein. Daniell. Nobis. 

 Habitat. South Africa. 



827. 20. A. Forfex, * Nob. (the Gambian Antelope ?) 

 Male about twenty-five inches high at the shoulders, rather 

 bulky in the carcass ; horns a foot long, black, close at 

 base, slightly bent forwards, then opening laterally with 

 their points again turned inwards, annulated with twelve 



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