SYNOPSIS OF THE 



twelve indistinct annuli ; neck short ; body bulky ; head 

 broad ; dark streak down the face ; general colour a deep 

 blackish purple-brown above, more fulvous beneath ; ears 

 six inches and a half long ; small lachrymary sinus ; facial 

 line straight; tail middle-sized, covered with long black 

 hair ; mammae ? 



The Sassayby, Daniell. D. Lunata, Nobis MS. 



Icon. Sassayby, Daniell. D. Lunata, Nobis. 



Habitat. The Booshwana country, South Africa. 



Sub-genus II. — Boselaphus. Horns common to both 

 sexes, heavy, very robust, placed on the summit of the fron- 

 tals, transversely wrinkled, straight or slightly bent with tips 

 forward, brown or gray in colour, twisted on their own axis, 

 which is in a prolonged direction with the plane of the face, 

 a ridge more or less prominent forming one spiral turn round 

 them ; a large sinus in the base of the nucleus, the rest par- 

 tially porous ; a muzzle ; no suborbital sinus ; mane on the 

 neck ; broad and deep dewlap edged with long hair ; females 

 an udder of four mamma ; stature very large ; species con- 

 fined to Africa. 



881. 6. D. Oreas (the Impoofo.) Adult male above five 

 feet high at the shoulder, nine feet long, and weighing 

 eight hundred pounds ; forehead square ; muzzle broad ; 

 facial line straight; horns about two feet long, straight, 

 with a ponderous ridge ascending in a spiral form to near 

 the tips; proportions of the body like a bull, above seven 

 feet in girth behind the arms ; neck thick ; shoulders very 

 high ; larynx very prominent ; dewlap fringed with long 

 hair ; a crest of bristles from the forehead passing up- 

 wards and recurrent along the ridge of the neck ; croup 

 depressed ; tail two feet long, with a large tuft of coarse 

 hair ; hide black ; general colour rufous-dun and ashy ; 

 females smaller ; horns more slender and longer. 



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