Genus I. ANTILOPE. 
Type. 
Antilope, Pall. Mise. Zool. p. 1 (1766). . . «'. . =. . . . -A. ceRVICAPRA*. 
Size medium. Muzzle hairy. A large anteorbital gland present. Tail 
short, compressed. Mamme 2. Accessory hoofs present. Glands in all 
the feet and in the groin. . 
Skull with deep pits between the orbits, very small or no lachrymal 
vacuities, and large anteorbital fosse. Molars tall and narrow. 
Horns long, placed close together, widely divergent, cylindrical, spirally 
twisted, closely ringed throughout. Female normally hornless. 
Range of the Genus. Peninsula of India. 
One species only is known. 
* This species, although mentioned last in Pallas’s List, may be taken as the type of the genus, 
because the term “Antilope” is clearly based on Ray’s and Buffon’s name for the Black-buck 
(The Antelope ; Antilope), quoted and identified by Pallas, and only used up to this date for this 
particular species. The ordinary justification for the same course, based on de Blainville’s revision 
of 1816, is, as in so many other cases, invalidated by the earlier work of Lichtenstein, by whom 
the Black-buck was placed among the “ Gazelle,” and not among the “Antilope genuine.” 
