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THE MAMMALS OP EGYPT. 
Subfamily ANTILOP IN^ 
BUBALIS. 
Bubalis, Licbt. Mag. nat. Freund. Berl. vi. 1814, p. 154. 
Size large; withers considerably higher than the rump. Horns present in both 
sexes, those of the female as long, but not so heavy, as those of the male. They are 
placed close together at the base, rising outwards and backwards, then curved forwards 
and upwards, and then bent more or less abruptly backwards and upwards at their 
tips. Colour uniform brown or rufous, with or without black markings on the face and 
legs. Longer hairs towards the end of the tail growing from upper side only, projecting 
at right angles to the vertebrae. 
Having very little fresh local material at my disposal, in this and other definitions 
of genera and species of Antelopes I have depended largely upon Sclater and Thomas’s 
‘ Book of Antelopes,’ both for the synonymy and specific characters of this group of 
Ungulata. 
Bubalis buselaphus, Pall. 
“ Bekker-el-Wash,” Shaw, Travels, 1738, p. 242. 
Le Lubale,^^ Buffon, Hist. Nat. xii. 1764, p. 294, pis. xxxvii., xxxviii. 
Antilope buselaphus, Pallas, Misc. Zool. 1766, p. 7. 
Antilope bubalis, Pall. Spic. Zool. fasc. i. 1767, p. 12, xii. 1777, p. 16; et auct. 
Bubalus mauritanicus, Ogilb. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 139. 
Bubalis mauritanica, Sund. Pecora, K. Yet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 208 ; Lydekker, Horns and IToofa, 
1893, p. 195. 
Alcelaphus bubalis, Gray, Cat. Ung. Brit. Mus. 1852, p. 123; Tristram, Great Sahara, 1860, 
p. 387; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 86; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 643. 
Alcelaphus bubalinus, Flower & Lydekker, Mamm. 1891, p. 335. 
Bubalis buselaphus, Sclater & Thomas, Book of Antelopes, i. 1894, p. 7, pi. i. 
Bubalis boselaphus, Bryden, in Great and Small Game of Afr. 1899, p. 133, pi. iv. fig. 1. 
Size, smallest of the Hartebeests; height at withers about 43 inches. Colour 
uniform pale rufous, entirely free from darker patches on head or limbs. Tail black 
on the terminal tuft only. Horns diverging from each other at an evenly rounded 
curve, so as to form a U when viewed from in front; length measured round the 
curves about 14 inches. 
Hob. Northern Africa (interior of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis) and Arabia. 
