SuspFaMILy LV. CERVICAPRINA. 
General Characters—Size large or moderate. Muzzle naked. Ante- 
orbital glands entirely absent. Tail moderate. False hoofs well developed. 
Skull smooth in front of the orbits and without any traces of anteorbital 
‘fossz ; auditory bulla large and swollen; median incisors expanded at their 
summits ; a well-developed supplemental lobe in the first true molar of each 
jaw. 
Horns present only in the male, medium-sized or long, not twisted, 
generally directed backwards at the base, and curving upwards and forwards 
towards the tips, occasionally with a serpentine curvature or quite straight, 
strongly ridged except at the tips. 
Range of Subfamily. Africa south of Sahara. 
The Waterbucks and Reedbucks, as these Antelopes are usually called, 
from the nature of the’ places to which they mostly resort, may be arranged 
together with the Rehbok, which clearly belongs to the same group, in three 
genera, as follows :— 
A. Size large or moderate. Horns large, elongate, curved. Fur straight, 
often coarse. 
a. Size larger. No naked auricular patch. Tail long, slightly tufted. 
Premaxille reaching the nasals. Spurious hoofs well developed. 
1. Cosus. 
6. Size smaller. A naked auricular patch. Tail short and bushy. Pre- 
maxille not reaching the nasals. Spurious hoofs smaller. 
2. CERVICAPRA. 
B. Size small. Horns small, upright, straight. Fur woolly. Tail short and 
bushy. Premaxille not reaching the nasals . . . . 3. PELEA. 
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