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** Face without any frontal streak ; horns small. 
\ Bach with transverse white stripes. 
The Zalofes or Harness Antelope. Tragelaphus scripfa. 
Pale bay ; back with four cross-bands and a central white streak ; haunches white spotted ; cheek 
with two white spots ; spot on chest, nose, feet, and spots on the legs blackish ; dorsal streak 
and end of tail black. Adult : chest and outside of shoulder and haunches and legs black : the 
male with a high ridge of long, coarse white hair extending the whole length of the back to the 
tail. 
Antilope scripta, Pallas, Misc. S.—Antilope {Tragelaphus') scripta, H. Smith. — A. maculata, Thunb. — A. (^Trag- 
elaphus) Phalerata, H. Smith. — The Harness Antelope, Pennant, Syn. 27. — Guib, Buffon, H. N. xii. 305, 
307. t. 40. t. 41. f. 1. — F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t..? ; Diet. Sci. Nat. t. c?. 
Inhabits W. Africa ; Senegal and Gambia. Called Omlofes or Zalofes. 
The dark colour of the chest and outside of the limbs, and the high crest of the male, are not developed 
until they are four or more years old. 
This species varies in some having seven and others nine white cross bands, and some are spotted and 
others not ; but they breed together, and the produce is often a different variety from the parent. 
They breed constantly at Knowsley : in May 1845 they had a small herd of two males and four females, 
three of which were expected to bear young. 
The Decula. Tragelaphus Decula. 
Grey brown ; back with three or four indistinct cross bands ; an arched streak on upper part of side, 
a few spots forming an arch on the haunches ; dorsal line, streak on nose, and in front of fore- 
legs blackish. 
Antilope Decula, Ruppell, Abyss, t. 4. 
Var. Back without the cross bands. 
Inhabits Africa ; Abyssinia {Ruppell). 
Back without any cross hands or lateral streak. 
The Bosch Boc. Tragelaphus sylmtica. 
Blackish brown; head pale brown; back, across forehead, black; small spot on haunches, larger 
spot on insides of legs and on feet white ; dorsal line longly crested, black, white varied in. 
Female paler brown. Young : pale bay. 
Antilope sylvatica, Sparmann, Act. Holm. iii. t. 7 .— Tragelaphus sylvatica, Harris, W. A. A. t. 26.— Forest An- 
telope, Pennant. 
Inhabits S. Africa; Cape of Good Hope. Brit. Mus. 
The two pairs of horns, named by Colonel H. Smith Boselaphus canna (a, h, in the List of Mam. Brit. 
Mus. 155) ; one, presented by Dr. W. Burchell, is certainly the horns of this species, and the other appear 
to be those of a young male, Strepsiceros Kudu. 
The Asiatic Strepsiceres have a bovine nose, with a large coriaceous moist muffle extending over the 
whole front of the upper lip ; small, short, angular horns ; a deep longitudinal tear-bag ; and the hind-legs 
much shorter than the fore-ones ; the skull without any suborbital pit, and only a minute fissure ; and with 
supplementary lobes to the grinders. 
4. PORTAX, Oreas, sp. {Fischer), Tragelaphus {Ogilby), Damalis (Portax) {H. Smith), 
with horns short, conical, angular, with an obscure oblique ridge ; tear-bag deep, longitudinal ; shoulders 
higher than the rump. 
The Nylghau. Portaoo Tragocamelus. Tab. XXIX. 
Grey ; under surface, rhombic spot on the forehead and above the hoofs black and white ringed ; 
tail, end black. Female browner. Young : dull reddish fawn ; lower part of fore-legs brighter ; 
under lip, spot on jaws, and line along belly on inside of legs and fore-part of hock, white ; tip 
of tail, line on back of nose and on front of legs black. 
Antilope Trago-camelus, Pallas, Misc. b.~A. picta, Pallas, Spicil. xiii. 54.— Gray, Cat. B. M. — A. alhipes, 
Erxl. 280. — A. leucopus, Zimm. Zool. bA\.~Damalis {Portax) Risia, H. Smith.— P. pic^a. Gray, Cat. B. M. 
— Tragelaphus Hippelaphus, Ogilby. — P. Tragelaphus, Sundev. — Biggel, Mandelst. Reise (1668), p. 122. 
