SYNOPSIS OF THE 



A. Quadricornis, Blainville. Tetracerus Quadricornis, 

 Leach. Le Chikara ? Duvaucel. Fred. Cuvier. 



Icon. Fred. Cuvier ? Nobis ? 



Habitat. Eastern side of the Burampootra, India, Ne- 

 paul ? 



Sub-genus X. — Cephalophus. Horns in the male only, 

 small, straight, or nearly straight, reclining, placed high on 

 the forehead, black, with wrinkles or annuli ; muzzle rather 

 developed, black; hair of the forehead lengthened into more 

 or less of tuft or spread ; a pouch opening between the orbits 

 and nostrils, by a puncture or a slit, independent of the 

 lachrymary sinus, which in some is wanting ; without tufts 

 on kriees, one only excepted ; pasterns short ; hinder shanks 

 long ; mamma two or four ; tail short, tufted ; colours gene- 

 rally dark ; stature middling or small : reside in covers or 

 bushy plains. Solitary. 



846. 39. A. Silvicultrix (the Bush Antelope.) Adult 

 male three feet, and three feet two inches high, five feet 

 long; head ten inches ; horns reclining, four inches long, 

 straight, pointed, wrinkled at base, rugous higher up, 

 smooth at tip, and slightly bent outwards ; tail pendulous, 

 with a brush ; mammae two ; tuft between horns clear 

 brown ; general colour dark-brown above, with fawn- 

 coloured longer hair over the spine and loins, grayish be- 

 neath ; legs dark-chestnut ; no tufts on knees. 



A. Silvicultrix, Afzel. Bush Goat of Sierra Leone. Ant. 

 des Buissons, Desmar. 



Icon. Nobis. Mr. Landseer from living specimen, Exeter 

 'Change. 



Habitat. The plains and bushes about the Pongas and 

 Quia in Western Africa. 



Var ? A. Platous, Nob. (Broad-eared Antelope.) Speci- 



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