16 
Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 339 (1891) ; Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. 8. Afr. p. 25, pl. v. 
fig. 15 (head) (1892) ; Ward, Horn Meas. p. 81 (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, 
p- 218 (1893). 
Scopophorus scoparius, Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 131 (1887) ; 
id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 160 (1892). 
Neotragus scoparius, Rendall, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 361. 
Antilope melanura, Bechst. Allgem. Uebers. vierf. Thiere, i. p. 73 (1799), ii. p. 642 
(1800). 
Cemas melanura, Oken, Lehrb. Nat. ii. pt. 2, p. 743 (1816). 
Scopophorus ourebi grayi, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 165 (1869). 
Vernacutar Names :—Oribi of Dutch and English Cape Colonists ; Zula of Kaffirs 
(Drummond) and Zulus (Rendall). 
Size comparatively large. General colour bright sandy rufous, of under- 
side pure sharply-defined white. Chin white. Throat and outer side of limbs 
like back. Above the anterior corner of each eye a white stripe, ending over 
the middle of the eye. Crown with or without a brown patch or horseshoe- 
shaped mark, which is very variable in its development. Auricular gland 
small, indistinct, scarcely more than half an inch in diameter. Knees with 
well-marked tufts of longer hairs. Small but distinct false hoofs present 
both on fore and hind feet. Tail with its tuft about four or five inches in 
length, its basal third sandy rufous like the back, the remainder thickly 
tufted, black. 
Skull with a long slender muzzle. Supraorbital vacuities present. Pre- 
maxillz not reaching the nasals. Anteorbital fosse very large and open, 
filling up all the space in front of the orbits, their edges sharply ridged above 
and below. 
Horns about four inches in length, slender, evenly tapering, slanting 
back at an angle of about 45° to the general line of the skull; very slightly 
curved upwards and forwards; their rings close together, low, rounded, and 
indistinct, present on the basal halves of the horns only. 
Dimensions :— ¢. Height at withers 24 inches, hind foot 11, ear 3-7. 
Skull: basal length 5:8, greatest breadth 2°9, muzzle to orbit 3-65. 
Hab. 8. Africa south of the Zambesi. 
As in the case of the Klipspringer, this little Antelope first became known to 
naturalists in Europe through the Dutch settlers at the Cape. They called it 
