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Genus II. DAMALISCUS. 
Type. 
Damalis, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846), et auctorum 
PUIGHOLUM ne Hams SMeee so i 2 - . . « = « Ds LUNATUS. 
PPMRAMSCES ROME NOVUM 5 Fe el Cl Ces Cs SD PYGARGUS. 
Similar in most essential characters to Bubalis, but distinguished by the 
frontals being quite normal, and not drawn upwards and backwards to form a 
horn-support. As a result the parietal surface of the skull faces upwards 
instead of backwards, and is easily visible between the horns in a vertical 
view of the skull. 
The horns practically form a single simple or slightly lyrate curve in all the 
species, except D. hunteri, and in this, although there is a double sigmoid 
curve, no approximation is shown to the peculiarly abrupt double curvature 
characteristic of Bubalis. 
Range of the Genus. Africa south of the Atlas. 
As in the previous genus, the species of Damaliscus, seven in number, may 
be divided into groups based on the curvature and direction of the horns, as 
follows :— 
A. Horns with a double curve, slanting outwards and upwards, then bending 
slightly downwards almost at once, while their long points are again 
directed upwards . . . 1. D. hunteri. 
B. Horns evenly curved backwards or slightly lyrate; the tips only recurved 
upwards. 
a. No white blaze on face . . 2, 3, 4. D. korrigum, D. tiang, D.jimela. 
b. Face with a white blaze . . 5, 6. D. pygargus, D. albifrons. 
C. Horns starting laterally outwards, with a single lunate curve upwards 
and backwards . . . . 7. D. lunatus. 
