BOVID.E 335 
In the typical forms, such as the Bubaline Antelope (4. buba- 
linus), the Harte-beest (f. cama, Fig. 137), and the Tora Antelope 
(4. tora, Fig. 138), the horns, which present the peculiar curvature 
shown in the figures, are situated on a crest at the vertex of the skull, 
and the facial portion of the cranium is greatly elongated. The Harte- 
beest, which is found throughout Central and Southern Africa, 
stands nearly 5 feet high at the withers, and is a somewhat ungainly 
looking animal, with short hair, which is grayish-brown above 
and newly white beneath. In the Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills in 
Northern India there occur remains of an -f{leeluphus (4. paleindicus) 
Fig, 137. —The Harte-beest (Aleelaphus cacmea). 
in which the skull had the long facial portion characteristic of the 
typical group, while the horns approximate to those of the 
Bontebok. The Blessbok (4. a/bifrons) and Bontebok (4. pygargus), 
belonging to the genus Jamalis of many authors, have the facial 
portion of the skull shorter, the horns situated more in advance of 
the plane of the occiput, and inclining regularly backwards. Of the 
Blessbok My. C. J. Anderson observes that “it is of a beautiful 
violet colour, and is found in company with black Wildebeests and 
Springboks in countless thousands on the vast. green plains of short 
crisp, sour grass occupying a central position in South Africa, Cattle 
and horses refuse to pasture on the grassy products of these plains, 
which afford sustenance to myriads of this Antelope, whose skin 
emits a most delicious and powerful perfume of flowers and sweet- 
