SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



croup; shoulders high; neck arched; head long, and 

 pointed ; forehead arched ; horns rising at the sides of 

 frontals, subtriangular, thick at base, with a ridge towards 

 the front, bending forward and upwards, black, smooth, 

 seven inches long ; lachrymary sinus considerable ; muzzle 

 broad ; ears broad, marked with two black streaks on the 

 inner surface ; mane erect, black, reaching upon the withers ; 

 long dark tuft on the throat to dewlap ; general colour 

 slaty-gray, browner on the legs ; pasterns often marked 

 with one or more white rings ; tail with a black tuft ; 

 female smaller, rufous ashy-gray. 



Ant. Picta, Auctor. White-footed Antelope, Pent. Ris'ya 

 or Rishya of the Sanscrit. Neelghau of Northern Indostan. 

 Gaw-zan of the Penjab. 



Icon. Buffon, Pent. Nobis male and female. 



Habitat. Northern India. 



Tribe V. — Bovidce. 



Horns persistent, common to both sexes, vaginating upon 

 a bony nucleus, not solid but more or less porous, and 

 cellular ; the horny sheath increasing by ringlets at the 

 base; the horns round, without annuli, striiio, or ridges ; 

 invariably placed upon or at the sides of the frontals, never 

 straight, but at first always bending outwards or forwards ; 

 a broad muzzle, almost always naked ; no lachrymary 

 sinus; neck short; breast and shoulder deep, more or 

 less dewlapped ; structure powerful; vertebra) of the tail 

 often prolonged below the hough ; no inguinal jiores ; 

 females always bearing an udder ; stature large ; manners 

 gregarious. 



Genus I. — Catoblepas. 



Incisors ^ ; canines ^:g ; molars J:g = 32. Head square ; 

 horns flat and broad at base, nearly joining on the crest of 

 the frontals; lying outwards, turning down with the 



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