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3. Subgenus ADENOTA. 



Adenota, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 129 ; Pococlt, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 915. 



Kelatively small antelopes, with short or moderately long 

 coat, not grizzled ; hair of back reversed ; neck not maned ; 

 horns relatively short, sublyrate, without well-marked double 

 (sigmoid) flexure ; a single pair of inguinal pouches. 



Distribution Equatorial and Southern Africa. 



The two species here recognised may be distinguished 

 as follows : — 



A. Front of fore-legs black ; hair short Kohus Ttoh. 



B. Front of fore-legs rufous ; hair longer Kohus vardoni. 



VII. KOBUS (ADENOTA) KOB. 



Antilope kob, Erxlehen, Syst. Begn. Anim. p. 293, 1777 ; Zimmcrmann, 

 Geogr. Geschichie, vol. ii, p. 124, 1780 ; Gatterer, Brev. Zool. 

 vol. i, p. 84, 1780 ; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. ii, p. 234, 1804 ; 

 Besmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. ii, p. 187, 1816, Mammal- 

 ogie, vol. ii, p. 457, 1822 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, 

 p. 1240, 1818 ; Lesson, Man. Mainm. p. 375, 1827 ; J. B. Fischer, 

 Synop. Mamm. p. 463, 1829 ; Owen, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 38, 

 Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 634, 1868; Laurillard, Diet. Univ. 

 Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 617, 1841 ; Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, 

 Suppl. vol. iv, p. 435, 1844, vol. v, p. 432, 1855 ; Fraser, Zool. 

 Typ. pi. XX, 1849 ; Temminch, Esquiss. Zool. Ouine, pp. 190 

 and 199, 1853. 



Cerophorus (Gazella) kob, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Antilope forfex, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 221, 

 vol. V, p. 334, 1827 ; Lesson, Hist. Nat. Anim. vol. x, p. 209, 

 1836 ; Beichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 110, 1845. 



Antilope adenota, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, 

 p. 223, vol. V, p. 335, 1827 ; A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. 

 vol. ii, p. 209, 1834 ; Beichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 110, 

 1845. 



Kobus adansoni, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. text to 

 pi. xxix, 1840. 



Antilope annulipes. Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. x, p. 262, 

 1842. 



Adenota kob. Gray, Enowsley Menagerie, p. 14, pis. xiv and xv, 1850, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 129, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 

 vol. viii, p. 211, 1851, Cat. ZJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 96, 1852, Cat. 

 Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 17, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 87, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 238, 

 1862; Fitzinger, Siizber. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, 

 p. 174, 1869 ; Jentinh, Cat. Osteol. Leyden Mus. {Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, vol. ix) p. 130, 1887, Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (op. cit. 



