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III.— Genus BOOCERCUS. 



Euryceros, Qray, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 144, Cat. Buminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 47, 1872, nee Lesson, 1830. 

 Boocercus, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. x, p. 309, 



1902; Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 931. 

 Boocerus, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 731, 1904, errorim. 



Differs from the two preceding genera by the presence 

 of horns in both sexes, the terminally tufted tail, and the 

 absence of inguinal glands ; horns smooth, forming an open 

 tragelaphine spiral of about one complete turn, with yellow 

 tips; no frontal tuft or dewlap. Restricted to the forest- 

 zone of Equatorial Africa, 



BOOCEECUS EUEYCERUS. 



Antilope euryceros, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 120 ; Water- 

 house, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. Soc. p. 42, 1836; Tomminch, 

 Esquiss. Zool. Guine, p. 190, 1853 ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 

 ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 468, 1887. 



Tragelaphus eurycerus,* Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Begne Anim., Mamm. 

 p. 181, 1842; Chay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 144,t 1861, p. 276, 

 Knowsley Menagerie, p. 27, pi. xxiii, fig. 1, 1850, Cat. Ungulata 

 Brit. Mus. p. 136, 1852 ; Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, Suppl. 

 vol. V, p. 441, 1855 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 246, 1862 ; Fitzinger, Sitzber. h. ATc. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, 

 pt. 1, p. 174, 1869; BrooTce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 485, 

 pi. xxxix ; Sclater, ibid. 1883, p. 35 ; Thomas, ibid. 1891, p. 387 ; 

 Flower and Lydeklcer, Study of Mammals, p. 347, 1891 ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, p. 158, 1892, ed. 2, p. 202, 1896 ; Jentinh, 

 Cat. Mamm. Leyden Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. xi) p. 172, 1892 ; 

 Lydehher, Horns and Hoofs, p. 254, 1898 ; Pousargues, Ann. 

 Sei. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 81, 1897 ; Bothschild, Novit. 

 Zool. vol. V, p. 206, 1898 ; Bryden, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 454, 1899 ; Sclater and Thomas, Booh of Antelopes, 

 vol. iv, p. 131, pi. xci, 1900. 



Antilope (Addax) euryceros, Laurillard, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat. vol. i, 

 p. 620, 1861. 



Tragelaphus albo-virgatus, du Chaillu, Proc. Boston Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 vol. vii, p. 299, 1861, Explor. Equal. Africa, p. 306, 1861. 



Tragelaphus albovittatus. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 276. 



Euryceros euryceros. Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 48, 1872, 

 Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 119, 1873 ; Jentinh, Cat. 

 Osteol. Leyden Mus. {Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. ix) p. 23, 1888 ; 

 Biittihofer, Beisebilder OMS Liberia, vol. ii, p. 380, 1890. 



• Frequently given as eivryceros. 



t As the subgeneric term Euryceros is proposed on the same page, 

 the name is really Tragelaphus (Euryceros) euryceros. 



