208 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



which may belong to an extinct genus ; * but the reference 

 to it of teeth from the superficial deposits of North America f 

 is almost certainly incorrect. 



The two species are distinguishable as follows : — 



A. Size smaller, ears narrow and pointed, neck coloured 



more or less like body T. oryx. 



B. Size larger, ears broad and rounded, neck (in males) 



with a wide black band bordered posteriorly with 



white T. derhianus. 



I. TAUEOTEAGUS OEYX. 



Antilope oryx, Pallas, Misc. Zool. p. 9, 1766, Spicil. Zool. fasc. i,, 

 p. 15, 1767 ; Miiller, Natursyst., Suppl. p. 55, 1776 ; Erxlehen, 

 Syst. Begn. Anim. p. 275, 1777 ; Zimmermann, Spec. Zool.. 

 Geogr. p. 539, 1777 ; Gatterer, Brev. Zool. vol. i, p. 79, 1780 ;, 

 Sparrtnan, Eesa, p. 504, pi. xii, 1785, English Transl. {Voyage 

 to Cape of Good Hope) vol. i, p. 131, vol. ii, pp. 96 and 204,. 

 pi. i, 1786 ; Latham and Davies, Faunula Indica, p. 4, 1795 ;. 

 Cuvier, Tahl. Elem. Hist. Nat. p. 163, 1798 ; Lichtenstein, 

 Forster's Descrip. Anim. p. 33, 1844. 



Antilope oreas, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii, p. 17, 1777; Zimm&r- 

 m,ann, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. ii, p. 109, 1780, vol. iii, p. 269, 

 1783 ; Schreber, Sdugthiere, pi. cclvi, 1784 ; Boddaert, Elenchus 

 Anim,. p. 139, 1785 ; Gmelin, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 190,, 

 1788; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, p. 317, 1792; Donndorff, 

 Zool. Beytrdge, vol. i, p. 639, 1792 ; Latham and Davies, 

 Faunula Indica, p. 4, 1795 ; Link, Beytrdge Naturgesch. 

 vol. ii, p. 100, 1795; Bechstein, Sy stein. Uebersicht vierfiiss. 

 Thiere, vol. ii, p. 642, 1800 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2,. 

 p. 319, pi. olxxxv, 1801 ; Turton, Linn.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i^ 

 p. 115, 1802 ; Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. vi, p. 376, 

 1803, vol. xxiv, p. 32, 1804 ; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Hist. Nat. vol. ii, 

 p. 244, 1804, Begne Anim. vol. i, p. 263, 1817 ; Thunberg, Mem. 

 Ac. Sci. St. Petersh. vol. iii, p. 314, 1811 ; Lichtenstein, Beise 

 siidl. Africa, vol. i, p. 155, 1811, vol. ii, pp. 39 and 46, 1812 ; 

 G. Fischer, Zoognosia, vol. iii, p. 422, 1814 ; Afzelius, Nova Acta 

 Soc. Upsal. vol. vii, p. 220, 1815 ; Burchell, List Quadrupeds 

 presented to Brit. Mus. p. 7, 1817, Travels in S. Africa, vol. i, 

 p. 245, 1822 ; Goldfuss, Schreber's Sdugthiere, vol. v, p. 1153,. 

 1818 ; Gray, Med. Bepos. vol. xv, p. 307, 1821 ; Schinn, Guvier's 

 Thierreich, vol. i, p. 296, p. 396, 1821, Synop. Mamm. vol. ii, 

 p. 449, 1845 ; Desmoulins, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 447, 

 1822 ; Masson, Guvier's Begne Anim. vol. i, p. 317, 1836 ; Owen, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 38, Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 637, 

 1868 ; Giebel, Sdugethiere, p. 200, 1853-55 ; Drummond, Large 



* See Pilgrim, Bee. Geol. Surv. India, vol. xliii, p. 303, 1913. 



t Taurotragus americanus, Gidley, Smithson. Misc. Collect.. 

 vol. Ix, no. 27, p. 1, 1913 ; see also Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. 

 Freunde, 1913, p. 250. 



