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Genus I]. TRAGELAPHUS. 
Type. 
Tragelaphus, De Blainv. Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p.75 . . . . . 'T. syzvaricus. 
Euryceros, Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 47 (1872). . . . . . . . QT. BURYCERUS. 
Large or medium-sized Antelopes, with the facial, neck, body, and leg 
markings characteristic of the subfamily usually well expressed. 
Hind-quarters as high as or higher than the withers ; fore limbs not longer 
than hind limbs. Hoofs of normal form, their length along the anterior 
border about equal to the basal width from back to front; posterior surface 
of the pasterns covered with hair. Ears large and expanded. 
Horns present only in the male; of medium length or long, always longer 
than the face; flat at the base behind; with a strong external basal ridge 
arising just behind the orbit and forming an obtuse angle with the plane of 
the nasals; spirally twisted, the twist affecting the whole horn with the 
exception of its extreme tip, but shallow and not taking the form of an open 
corkscrew spiral; the anterior ridge, which starts in front of the middle of 
the base of the horn, only reappearing once close to the tip. 
Skull much less flat than in Boselaphus, the parietal region more depressed. 
Molar teeth with short crowns; those of the upper jaw with only a small 
accessory column. 
Range of the Genus. Africa, south of the Sahara, from Senegambia, 
Abyssinia, and Somaliland, over the whole continent. 
The species of this genus here recognized may be tabulated as follows :— 
a. Height at withers of adult male about 30 inches; horns from about 10 to 
15 inches, normally with black tips; a white patch present upon the 
upper end of the throat. 
a’. A large white patch at the base of the fore leg on the inner side ; inner 
side of fore leg from knee to fetlock and of hind leg from hock to 
fetlock white; body striped or spotted with white. 
a?, Adult male a rich dark red colour above, and very distinctly marked 
with many white spots and stripes . . . 121. 7 scriptus. 
