SYNOPSIS OF THE 



Icon. Shaw. Nobis from specimens in Leverian and 

 Bullock's Museums. 

 Habitat. Guinea, Central Africa. 



857. 50. * A. Madoka, Nob. (Salt's Antelope.) Ani- 

 mal very small ; horns one inch and a quarter long, very 

 slender, recumbent, points slightly turned forward, six or 

 seven semi-annuli at base ; ears broad, oval ; hair of the 

 forehead very close, short, and fine ; no lachrymary sinus ; 

 colour of the head pale fulvous ; pasterns long ; hoofs very 

 long, pointed, horn colour. 



A. Madoka, Nobis MS. A. Saltiana, Blainv. Desmar. 

 Madoka, in Abyssinia. 



Icon, Nobis and Blainville of the fragments in the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. 



Habitat. Abyssinia. 



Sub-genus XII.-— Tragelaphus. Horns in the males 

 only ? with ridges forming angles^ which turn somewhat 

 spirally, seated high on the front als, reclining ; small or 

 naked spot for a muzzle ; no lachrymary opening ; colours 

 remarkably diversified with white spots and streaks ; form 

 elegant, though receding from the typical structure of true 

 Antelopes, and assuming that of goats ; females with four 

 mammcB, 



858. 51. A. Sylvatica. (The Boschbock.) The adult 

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

 inches in length ; head seven inches ; horns ten inches 

 long, marked with an obsolete ridge in front, and one in 

 rear, horizontal, spiral and sub-lyrate, black, and closely 

 annulated at base ; general colour brilliant chestnut brown 

 above, and marked with a narrow streak along the spine ; 

 several round spots on the cheek ; shoulder, loins, and 



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