130 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Cerophorus (Oryx) leucoryx, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, 

 p. 75. 



Oryx leucoryx, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, p. 204, 

 1835; Thomas, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1903, vol. i, p. 300; Pocook, 

 ibid. 1910, p. 908 ; Ward's Becords of Big Game, ed. 7, p. 293, 

 1914. 



Antilope ensicomis var. asiatica, Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, 



Suppl. vol. V, p. 437, 1855. 

 Oryx leucoryx pallasi, Fitzinger. Sitzber. Jc. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, 



pt. 1, p. 178, 1869. 



Oryx beatrix, Oi-ay, Proa. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 157, pi. Iv, Cat. Bumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 36, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 112, 1873 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 603, 1881, p. 819 ; 

 St. John, ibid. 1874, p. 95 ; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. Mus. 

 p't. ii, p. 156, 1891 ; Flower and LydeJcJcer, Study of Mammals, 

 p. 344, 1891 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, p. 148, 1892, ed. 6, 

 p. 298, 1910 ; LydeTcker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 249, 1893, Great 

 and Small Game of Eiirope, etc. p. 204, 1901 ; Matschie, Sitzber. 

 Ges. nat. Freunde, 1893, p. 104 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, 

 p. 541 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 131, 

 1896 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 51, 

 pi. Ixxxii, 1899 ; Benshaw, Final Nat. Hist. Essays, p. 136, 1907 ; 

 Garruthcrs, Field, vol. cxiv, p. 122, 1909. 



Antilope beatrix, Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. ix, p. 61, 1887. 



Beatrix, or Arabian, Oryx. 



Typical locality probably Arabia. 



The smallest member of the group ; shoulder-heiglit 

 about 35 inches. Horns nearly straight, relatively long ; 

 general colour dirty white, slightly darker on haunches ; face 

 with a frontal and a nasal brown patch, which may be united 

 by a narrow line, and a similarly coloured eye-stripe expand- 

 ing below to form, with its fellow and a throat-stripe, a 

 patch on lower jaw, and continued as a line down throat as 

 far as chest, which is also brown ; ears, mane, and tail 

 (except black tuft) whitish. Legs, from shoulders and thighs 

 to pasterns (which are white), deep brown ; a faint brownish 

 flank- stripe ; hair of back reversed from rump. Horns 

 measure from 22 to 27j inches in length, with a basal girth 

 of from 4 to 5, and a tip-to-tip inter \-al of from 9j to 

 12^ inches. 



The range extends from Southern Arabia to Mesopo- 

 tamia. 



57. 6. 26. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. From an 

 animal presented by Capt. J. Sheppard to the Zoological 



