226 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



1. Subgenus KOBUS. 



Large, heavily-built antelopes, with coarse, grizzled coat, 

 not reversed on back, heavily maned neck, and, in the males, 

 long, stout sublunate, forwardly inclined horns. 



The two species are distinguished as follows : — 



A. A white elliptical band on rump K. ellipsiprymnus. 



B. No white rump-band K. defassa. 



Distribution co-extensive, in suitable localities, with that 

 of the genus. 



I. KOBUS ELLIPSIPEYMNUS. 



Autilope ellipsiprymnus, Ogilhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 47, Penny 

 Encylopmdia, vol. ii, p. 88, 1834 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, 

 p. 38; Wagner, Schreher's Sdugthiere, Suppl. vol. i\, p. 434, 

 1844, vol. V, p. 434, 1855 ; Peters, Beise nach Mossamhique, 

 Sdugeth. p. 189, 1852. 



Aigooeros ellipsiprymnus, A. Stnith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii, 

 p. 186, 1834. 



Aigooerus ellipsiprymnus, Harris, Wild S;ports S. Africa, p. 387, 

 1839, ed. 5, p. 351, 1852, Wild Anim. 8. Africa, p. 71, pi. xiv, 

 1840. 



Kobus ellipsiprymnus, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Manim. 

 pt. xii, pis. xxviii and xxix, 1840 ; Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 1, vol. xviii, p. 232, 1846, ser. 3, vol. iv, p. 296, 1859, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1850, p. 130, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 15, 1850, Cat. Un- 

 gulata Brit. Mus. p. 99, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 15, 

 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 86, 1873; Qerrard, 

 Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 239, 1862 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1864, p. 101 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber h. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, 

 pt. 1, p. 176, 1869 ; Drummond, Large Game S. Africa, p. 426, 

 1875 ; Brehni, Thierlehen, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 224, 1880 ; 

 Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. B. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, 

 p. 268, 1884 ; Jentinh, Cat. Osteol. Leyden Mus. {Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 vol. ix) p. 131, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. {ibid. vol. xi) 

 p. 159, 1892, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. ix, p. 172, 1887 ; Nicholls 

 and Eglington, Sportsman in S. Africa, p. 44, 1892 ; True, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xv, p. 471, 1892 ; PococTc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1904, vol. i, p. 4, 1910, p. 916 ; O. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. 

 Freunde, 1905, p. 93 ; Broun, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, vol. ii, p. 296 ; 

 Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1910, p. 409, Mitt, Zool. 

 Mus. Berlin, vol. v, pt. 3, p. 556, 1911 ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. 

 Mus. Madrid, p. 126, 1912. 



Antilope (CEgooerus) ellipsiprymnus, Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Begne 

 Anim., Mamm. p. 180, 1842. 



Kolus ellipsiprymnus, Q^-ay, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 159, 1843. 



