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Nanotragus melanotis, Brooke, P. Z.S. 1872, p. 642; Selous, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 762 
(distribution) ; id. Hunt. Wanderings S. Afr. p. 222 (1881) ; Bryden, Kloof and 
Karroo, p. 800 (1889); W. Scl. Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. i. p. 167 (1891) ; Flow. 
& Lyd. Mamm. p. 339 (1891) ; Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 26, pl. viii. 
fig. 29 (head) (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 219 (1893); Lorenz, Ann. 
Mus. Wien, ix. p. 60 (1895). 
Neotragus melanotis, Scl. List Anim. Z. 8. (8) p. 145 (1883); id. P. Z. S. 1895, 
p. 590; Rendall, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 361. 
Antilope grisea, G. Cuv. Dict. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 244 (1816) ; Burch. List Mamm. pres. 
to B. M. p. 6 (1825) (Plettenberg’s Bay); H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 250, v. 
p. 341 (1827) ; Less. N. Tabl. R. A.. Mamm. p. 177 (1842) (nec Boddaert). 
Cerophorus (Cervicapra) grisea, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 
Oreotragus griseus, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 164 (1843). 
Antilope rubro-albescens, Desmoul. Dict. Class. d’H. N. i. p. 446 (1822). 
Vernacutar Names :—Grysbok of Dutch and English Cape Colonists ; Sash-lungwan 
of Matabilis; Teemba of Makalakas (Selous) ; Cassenja at Senna and Tette 
(Peters). 
Height about 22-23 inches. Fur long and coarse, of a deep rich red 
colour profusely mixed with pure white hairs, whence the name “Grys” or 
Grey-buck. Under surface paler, but not white. Crown frequently with a 
black crescentic mark running round it, as in the Steinbok *. “ars very large, 
* Besides the normally coloured specimens of Steinbok and Grysbok found so commonly in 
various parts of the Cape Colony, there occasionally occur pale-coloured, more or less albino, 
examples to which the names “ Bleekbok” and ‘ Vlackte-Steenbok” have been applied by the 
Dutch. 
On such albinistic individuals the following synonymy rests, but whether the names really 
belong to the Steinbok or to the Grysbok, or some to one and some to the other, it is quite impossible 
and of little importance now to determine :— 
Antilope tragulus pallida, Licht. Mag. nat. Freund. vi. p. 177 (1814); Forst. Descr. Anim. 
p. 376 (1844). 
Antilope pallida, H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 251, v. p. 342 (1827). 
Antilope pediotragus, Afzel. N. Act. Ups. vii. pp. 260 & 264 (1815); Goldf. Schr. Siiug. v. 
p. 1236 (1818); Smuts, En. Mamm. Cap. p. 84 (1832); Gerv. Dict. Sci. Nat. Supp. i. 
p. 262 (1840); Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 177 (1842). 
Tragulus pediotragus, A. Sm. S. Afr. Quart. J. il. p. 213 (1834). 
Antilope rufescens, H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 249, v. p. 341 (1827); Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. 
p. 177 (1842); Schinz, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 412 (1845). 
Calotragus melanotis pallida, Gray, Knowsl. Men. p.7 (1850); id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 72 (1852). 
Calotragus rufescens, Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 192 (1853). 
Pediotragus rufescens, Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 165 (1892). 
