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Genus VI. MADOQUA. 
Type. 
Madoqua, Ogilb. P. Z.S. 1836, p.187. . . . . . M. savrrana. 
Neotragus, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, Pp. ‘191 (1846) 
(et auctorum plurimorum, nec H. Sm.) . . . . . . . . . M. sautiana. 
Size small; nose elongated, proboscis-like ; its tip nearly entirely hairy, 
except just on the lower part of the nasal septum; crown of head tufted ; 
tail very short, almost rudimentary; accessory hoofs present, but quite 
minute. 
Skull with the premaxille long and the nasals short, in correlation with 
the lengthening of the snout into a proboscis ; anteorbital vacuities large ; 
anteorbital fossz large but shallow ; last lower molar in some species without 
the posterior lobe which is present in all other ruminants. 
Horns from half to three-quarters the length of the skull, straight or 
slightly sinuate, strongly ribbed basally. 
Distribution. Extending diagonally across Africa from Abyssinia to Damara- 
land. No species found either in N.W., South, or S.E. Africa. 
Of this genus we are prepared to recognize six species, which fall naturally 
into two groups—(A) those in which the proboscis is comparatively slightly 
developed and the last lower molar is without a posterior lobe, and (B) those 
in which the proboscis is very long and the last lower molar, as in other 
Ruminants, has a third lobe. Within the groups the species differ compara- 
tively little from each other, but may be distinguished without difficulty by 
the characters of size, colour, and form, used in the following synopsis :— 
A. Last lower molar without a third lobe; upper line of premaxille slanting, 
scarcely curved. Proboscis less developed. 
a. Back yellowish or fulvous grey, sides scarcely more rufous. 
a’. Size larger, basal length of skull 3°75 in. . . 52. M. saltiana. 
b'. Size smaller, basal length of skull about 3:1 in. 53. UM. swaynet. 
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