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22. MAZAMA {Rajinesque), Aplocerus {H. Smith), 
with small, conical horns, nearly erect, slightly inclined and recurved at the tip, ringed at the base ; nose 
ovine, hairy ; muffle none ; tear-bag none : fur short, under fur woolly, outer very long, hairy and 
dependent. 
The Mazama or Springbuck. Mamma Americana. 
White ; horns, hoof and edge of nostrils black. 
Rupicapra Americana, Blainv. — Antilope Americana, Desm. — Capra Americana, Rich. F. B. A. 268. t. 22. — Ovis 
Montana, Ord— Capra montana, Harlan.— J. lanigera, H. Smith..— Mazama dorsata and M. sericea, Rafin. 
— A. Mazama and Apl. Femmamazama, H. Smith. — Capra} Columbiana, J) eamoul.— Rock Mountain Sheep, 
Jameson, Mem. Wern. Soc. iii. 306. 
Inhabits N. America; Rocky Mountains. Spec. Mus. Linn. Soc. and Zool. Soc. 
23. RUPICAPRA, 
with elongate, slender, erect horns, recurved at the tip; nose ovine, hairy ; muffle none; fur soft; skull 
without any pit, and with a minute suborbital fissure ; grinders without supplemental lobes, cutting- 
teeth equal-sized, erect. 
The Chamoise or Gerus. Rupicapra Tragus. 
Brown yellowish, with a dark dorsal streak in summer, blackish in winter. 
Capra Rupicapra, Linn.— ^. Rupicapra, Pallas.— H. Smith, G. A. K. t. 90.— Rupicapra Capella, Bonap.— /t!. j^y- 
renaica, Bonap. — Tragus Dorcas, Klein. — Chamoise, BufFon, H. N. xii. t. 16. — F. Cuv. Mam. Lith. t. . 
Inhabits S. Europe ; Switzerland and Pyrenees. Brit. Mus. and living at Knowsley, 1846. 
24. ANTILOCAPRA {Ord), Dicranocerus (H. Smith), Oreammos {Bafin.), Cervus (Blainv.), 
with erect horns, the base compressed with a flattened process in front, the end conical, recurved ; nose 
ovine, hairy; muffle none; fur very close ; hair stiff, coarse, flattened, wavy ; tail very short ; false 
hoofs none ; tear-bag none ; inguinal pores none ; legs rather slenderer than the other Goat Ante- 
lopes ; skull without any suborbital depression, but with a lengthened fissure ; grinders without sup- 
plemental lobes, cutting-teeth equal-sized and shelving. 
The Cabrit or Pronghorn. Antilocapra Americana (Ord, 1818). 
Pale fulvous ; upper part of rump white. 
Antilope Americana, Ord, 1815. — A.furcifer, A.palmata, H. Smith, Linn. Trans, xiv. t. 2, 3 : G. A. K. t. 178. 
t. 199. f. 1 — 5.' — Richards. T. B. A. t. 21. — Cervus hamatus, Blainv. — C. Ufurcatus, Rafin. 
Inhabits N. America ; in the plains in summer and in the mountains in winter. Called the Goat. 
Mexico (Coulter). ' 
Dr. Coulter brought a head from Mexico which had the face dark brown, and the horns large, wide- 
spreading and much hooked at the tip, like the A. palmata of H. Smith (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1826, 121), 
This is probably only a larger variety in the summer fur. 
The Antelopes of the Desert. Nostrils bearded within beneath, operculated, far apart ; horns on the 
frontal ridge ; nose subcervine, with a small muffle ; legs rather stout ; tail elongate ; hoofs rather large. 
In the Equine Antelopes the muzzle is very depressed, spongy and bristly. 
25. CATOBLEPAS (Gray), Connoch^tes (Licht.), Bos (Forster), 
with horns bent down on the sides, recurved at the tip ; nose very broad, dilated, spongy, bristly ; nostrils 
operculated ; tail elongate, bushy, hairy from the base ; hoofs compressed in front ; teats four. 
This genus has been placed with the Oxen by Forster, and in the Bovine group of genera by Sundevall, 
but it has all the characters of the true Antelopes in the proportion of its leg-bone. 
* Nose with a crest of reversed hair ; chest maned. Catoblepas. 
The Gnu or Kokoon. Catoblepas Gnu. 
Nose with a tuft of reversed hair ; chest maned. Brown or blackish ; the lower part of the mane and 
tail often paler or white. Young : pale fulvous ; nasal gular and nuchal mane black. 
