SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



teeth broader ; pasterns longer ; hoofs smaller ; general 

 colour dull brownish-bufF; beneath white; perhaps only 

 a variety of the former. 



A. Casrula, Nob. MS. A Pigmaea, Desmarets. Kleene- 

 bock of the Dutch Colonuts, and Noumetje of the Hottentots. 



Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat. Caffraria. 



855. 48. * A. Philantomba, Nob. (the Philantomba.) 

 Young specimen eighteen inches long ; horns very short, 

 half an inch, the points just emerging from the long hair 

 of the forehead ; ears rounded at tip; long slit on the side 

 of the nose ; general colour dark-brown gray ; legs dark ; 

 pasterns short. 



May be the Guevei Kaior of the Negroes. 



Icon. Nobis. 



Habitat, Sierra Leone. 



Sub-genus XI. — Neotragus. Horns in the males only, 

 horizontal, very small, with a few a7inuli or semi-ammli, 

 black, pointed; no suborbital slit ; head round ; nose poiiitcd, 

 with a small muzzle ; tail short ; females two mammm ; size 

 very diminutive. 



856. 49. A. Pygmea Cthe Guevei.) Adult male about 

 eleven inches high at the shoulders ; nearly twenty inches 

 in length ; horns one inch and a quarter long, high on the 

 head, rather close, bulky at base, with one or two promi- 

 nent annuli, points sharp and black; a small lachrymary 

 opening, but no slit; ears short, round; general colour 

 bright bay, beneath whitish; female duller in colours; 

 smaller. 



Royal Antelope, Pent. King of the Harts, Bosman. A. 

 Pygmea, Shaw. Cervula Parvula Africana, Scba. Chev- 

 rotain de Guinee, Bujf. 



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