3IO WATERBUCKS AND REEDBUCKS 



smallest species do not exceed the dimensions of a Hare. None 

 are really large. 



I'etraceros is an Indian genus characterised, as its name 

 denotes, by the fact that it possesses four horns. It is the 

 posterior pair which correspond to the single pair of Cepha- 

 lojjhus. The anterior pair, which are much smaller and are 

 sometimes absent, are a new pair. The female of this Antelope is 

 hornless. Sheep are occasionally four-horned, and there is indeed 

 a breed of such in Kashmir. A four -horned Chamois was 

 descrilied by the late ilr. Alston. 



The Klipspringer, Orcotragus saltator, is the first type of a 

 third section ; as its name denotes, it is an Antelope with Goat- 

 like habits, being found particularly among rocks. The horns 

 are short and straight. This, the only species of the genus, is 

 African in range, of which its Dutch name gives evidence. 

 A specimen in the Zoological Society's Gardens (as has Ijeen 

 pointed out to me by j\Ir. Mercer) had the habit of depositing the 

 secretion of the tear gland upon a mass of C(.>iicrete in its 

 enclosure, the secretion thus exuded forming a pointed heap of 

 hardish matter. It may be that the object of this is to guide its 

 fellows to its whereabouts. 



Oiirrhia is a less-known genus, larger in size, but with horns 

 of the same character, thouQ-h lontrer. 



The ( rt-ysliok and the Steinbok, genus Pui-'phiceros, have similar 

 horns. This as well as the last two genera have horns in the 

 male only. 



One of the smallest of Antelopes belongs to an allied genus ; 

 this is XeotrcKjus pygmaeus. It is known as the Eoyal Antelope, 

 a name apparently derived from Bosnian's statement that the 

 negroes called it " the king of the harts." Its horns are ^ ery 

 small. The height of the animal is only 1 inches. Horns are 

 present in the male alone. The last three genera are African. 



The Cervicaprine series, which is also African, includes the AVater- 

 bucks and Eeedbucks, so called on account of their water-loving 

 propensities. As in the last series, from which they are separated 1 ly 

 Sclater and Thomas, but with which they are united by Flower, 

 there are horns in the male only. These horns, though not twisted, 

 are long. The typical genns is C'obus, of which there are eleven 

 species. The Waterbuck, C. ellrpsiprymnus, and the Sing-sing, 

 C. imctuosus, are perhaps the best-known species; the former is 



