Genus 1. BUBALIS. 
Type. 
Bubalis, Licht. Mag. nat. Freund. Berl. vi. p. 154 (1814) . . . . B. BusELapuus. 
Alcelaphus, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p.75 . . . . B. BUSELAPHUS. 
Damalis (gen.) and Acronotus (subgen.), H. Sm. Griff. Cuv. ie K. 
iwepicte cota (e2A).5g «2 &.s w 3.5 « s « «+, B. BUSELAPHUS: 
nus Ob Za. 1830, p. 159. . . « »« « » . . « . « Bs BUSELAPHUS, 
Size large and general form clumsy, with the withers considerably higher 
than the rump; head long and narrow; muzzle moist, naked, and rather broad ; 
nostrils close together, lined with stiff hairs; neck not maned; suborbital 
glands small, tufted in some species, but not in others; hoofs small; tail 
reaching below the hocks, moderately haired, generally with a compressed 
crest along the dorsal surface of its terminal half; mamme two. 
Colour uniform browa or rufous, with or without black patches on the head, 
shoulders, hips, and feet. 
Skull elongated ; the frontal bones produced upwards and ecards into a 
long bony support for the horns, the occiput being entirely hidden in the 
upper view of the skull; parietals small, compressed behind the frontal horn- 
pedicle, facing nearly horizontally backwards. Small interorbital perforations 
present ; lachrymal pits present but shallow. Molars very tall and narrow, 
and without supplementary lobes in the upper jaw. 
Horns present in both sexes, those of the female as long, but not so thick, 
as those of the male, placed close together at their bases ; doubly curved, first 
rising outwards or backwards, then curved forwards and upwards, and then 
bent abruptly backwards and upwards at their tips. 
ftange of the Genus. Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. 
This genus, containing the Hartebeests, is a very natural and well-defined 
one, and is curiously shown to be so by the fact that, so far as is as yet known, 
