290 Classified Catalogue of Mammals of Nepal. 



angle with the semi-circular or trigonal occiptal plane, which is 

 strongly ridged by the parietes at its summit, is smaller than the 

 frontal plane, and moderately indented. Horns attached rather 

 in advance of the parietal apex of the cranium, small, rounded, 

 curving ascendantly, or out of the horizontal ; 14 or 15 pairs of 

 ribs ; a true dorsal ridge, but confined to the withers, and termi- 

 nating posteally in a gradual slope ; dewlap none ; muzzle small. 

 Types B. Americanus et Poephagus. 

 1. Sp. Poephagus, in Nepal. H. N. and also Tibet. 

 73. Bubalus. — Cranium large, elongate, compressed or narrow, dispro-* 

 portional, exhibiting great excess (a 3rd) in the facial over 

 the frontal or cerebral portion ; frontals short, narrow, convex, 

 usually forming an obtuse angle with the occipital plane, which 

 is large and circular in proportion to the obtuseness of that 

 angle, and to the consequent rounding off of the culminal line 

 of separation ; parietals merged, not ridged as in the last, nor 

 culmenal. Horns attached to the ends of the highest line of 

 the scull, always exceeding in length that of the cranium, and 

 usually greatly so, depressed, strictly trigonal, and neither as- 

 cending nor descending, but directed horizontally backwards ; 

 thirteen pairs of ribs ; no true dorsal ridge nor fleshy haunch ; 

 muzzle large and square ; dewlap medial. 



1. Sp. and type, Bubalus Arna, foem. Arnee, two varieties. 

 Macrocerus, et Speirocerus, Nob. H. T. 



Antelopid^ VEL CaPRIDjE. 



74-5. Antelopa. — 2 Sp. Cervicapra Auct. et Bennettii Auct ? Bharatensis, 

 Nob. Vulgo, the Chouka or Ravine Deer. It seems to be iden- 

 tical with Africana Auct. H. T. 



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76. Fantholops iVo6.— Molars incisors erect, strong and rectilinearly 

 ranged. Horns with clear sinus in cores, long, slender, erect, subly- 

 rate, inserted between the orbits, compressed, nodose, and ap- 

 proximated at their bases. Large inguinal purses. No subor- 

 bital sinus. Nose ovine, bluff and hairy. Large intermaxillary 

 pouches or subsidiary nostrils. Knees simple. Ears pointed, 

 short. Tail short, full. Hoofs low, broad and padded with large 

 interdigital pores. Size, habits, and general aspect of Antelopa 

 et Gazella. Females hornless, with lesser inguinal purses, and two 

 teats. 



