THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES. 
VOL. Il. 
SupraMiy III. NEOTRAGINA. 
General Characters.—Size small. Muzzle either naked or elongated and 
hairy. Large anteorbital glands present, opening on the face by a small 
circular hole. Tail medium or short. False hoofs present or absent. 
Skull with large anteorbital fossee and, except in Neotragus, anteorbital 
vacuities. Frontal bones not projected backwards between the parietals, the 
horns placed above the hinder part of the orbits. 
Horns present only in the male ; short, nearly or quite straight, vertical or 
reclining backwards ; ridged basally, smooth terminally. 
ange of Subfamily. Africa. 
The numerous small Antelopes belonging to this subfamily were all 
included by Sir Victor Brooke in two genera, one consisting of the Dik-diks 
(Madoqua) and the other of all the rest (called by him “ Nanotragus’’). 
Bearing in mind, however, the naturalness of the smaller groups into which 
“ Nanotragus” may be divided, and the readiness with which these groups 
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