SYNOPSIS OF THE 



bulky, compressed, with an anterior ridge, forming with the 

 horn two complete spiral circles, the tips turned outwards 

 and forward ; colour pale, tips dark with a white point, 

 and three feet long; chafFron straight; muzzle very broad; 

 ears oblique, very broad tips, pointed ; neck thick ; withers 

 elevated ; dewlap anteriorly square ; forehead black, a 

 white line passing over the orbits, unites on the chaffron ; 

 chin white-bearded ; long fringe of hair on the dewlap, 

 and on the neck a standing mane ; general colour of the 

 fur a buff-gray, marked with a white line along the spine, 

 and intersected by four or five others running downwards 

 towards the belly, and four more across the croup ; buttocks 

 white; colour beneath rufous ; tail white above, edged with 

 rufous and black at the end; female hornless, and with 

 fewer and fainter white markings. 



Strepsiceros, Caius apud Gesn. Condoma, Coesdoes, 

 Buff. Coudou, Vosmaer. A. Strepsiceros, ^wcfor. Striped 

 Ant. Penn. 



Icon. Mr. Daniell. 



Habitat. The Cape Colony in the rocky plains of the 

 Karoo Mountains. 



Note. To this group belong- the A. Torticornis of Herman, and 

 probably the horn figured by Afzelius, for which we refer to the text in 

 the work. 



Subgenus IV. — Portax. Horns in the males only, placed 

 on the sides of the frontal crest, short, robust, sub-angular, 

 without rings; cavity in the nucleus? a complete muzzle; 

 deep suborbital sinus ; elevated shoulders ; depressed croup ; 

 bulky short body ; mane on neck ; tuft of hair on throat ; 

 small dewlap, and vaccine feet and tail ; stature large ; con- 

 fined to Asia. 



884. 9. D. Risia (the Neelghau.) Adult male about 

 four feet four inches at the shoulder; four feet at the 



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