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Hippotragus leucophasus, Brehm, Thierleben, Sdugeth. vol. iii, p. 226, 

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Egooerus equinus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 464 ; 

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Ozanna equina, Elliot, Cat. Mainm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. viii) p. 82, 1907. 



EoAN Antelope, or Bastard Gemsbok. 



Typical locality South Africa north of the Orange Eiver. 



Size very large, the shoulder-height in some cases being 

 from about 56 to 60 inches, or even more. Horns stout, 

 comparatively short, and cylindrical ; general colour greyish 

 or sandy roan; forehead and sides of face black (with or 

 without a patch of chestnut at base of horns) ; a prominent 

 patch below eyes — in the lower half of which the hairs are 

 elongated into a tuft — and a less conspicuous one behind 

 eyes,* together with muzzle, lips, and under-parts, white ; ears 

 long, narrow, and pointed, with black pencils of hair at tips ; 

 a brown mane, directed mainly backwards, but showing a 

 tendency to be whorled at withers, and a long throat-fringe ; 

 limbs brownish fawn, occasionally with black patches on 

 shoulders and upper part of fore-legs ; tail reaching nearly to 

 hocks, with black tuft. Average basal length of skull about 

 16 inches, maximum breadth 6f, interval between muzzle 



* Very frequently this patoli is not surrounded by black, but in 

 contact posteriorly with the general body-colour. 



