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a. Neck not maned. 
18. Adenota. 
Muffle cordate, moderate, cervine ; nose hairy between the back of 
the nostrils; horns sublyrate, ringed, when young rather recurved; 
place of tear-bag covered with a tuft of hair; hair of the back whorled, 
of dorsal line and back of head reversed; tail elongate, hairy. 
This genus is very like Eleotragus, but has a smaller, more cervine 
muzzle and lyrated horns; it differs from Cobus in the form of the 
tail, and wanting the mane, and from both in having a tuft of hair 
in the front of the orbit. 
* Horns sublyrate ; tail hairy . 
1 . Adenota Kob. The ^Equitqon. 
Pale brown; end of nose, inside of ears, chest, belly, inside of legs 
and thighs, tip of tail, and band above hoofs white ; front of fore and 
hind legs, and end of ears and tail black ; hair of the dorsal line re¬ 
versed, with a whorl on the shoulders and loins. 
Antilope Kob , Erxl. from Kob, Buffon, H. N. xii. t. 32. f. 1 ? 
—Kobus Adansonii, A. Smith, from Buffon.— Gambian Antelope, 
Penn. Syn. 39, from Buffon.— A. adenota , H. Smith, G. A. K. iv. 
224. t. 184. and t. 183. f. 3, 4. horns? 
A. Kob, Ogilby, P.Z.S. 1836.— A. annulipes , Gray, Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist. 1843.— Adenota Kob, Gray, Knows. Menag. 14.1.14,15. 
Var. Female, hair longer, sides of face whitish. 
A. sing-sing, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus. 159, not Bennett. 
Inhabits W. Africa ; Gambia. Called AEquitoon by the Joliffs, 
and Kob by the Mandingoes. 
A fine pair has been at Knowsley some years. Thinking them 
new, I described them as A. annulipes. Mr. Ogilby has called it the 
Nag or, but it is scarcely the Nag or of Buffon. An adult male no¬ 
ticed by Mr. Ogilby as the Kob is now in the Museum of the Zoological 
Society ; its horns, like the male at Knowsley, are much worn down. 
They whistle like a stag. 
Buffon (H. N. xii. 219. 267. t. 32. f. 1) figures a skull with horns, 
brought from Senegal by Adanson, under the name of Kob, which is 
also called the Petit vache brune. Erxleben gave this figure the name 
of A. kob, and Pennant called it the Gambian Aiitelope , Syn. i. 39. 
The figures somewhat resemble the head of a half-grown male of this 
species, but the horns are longer, and have more rings than the spe¬ 
cimen in the British Museum; but I am inclined to agree with Mr. 
Ogilby in believing that it was intended for this species. In the Jar- 
din des Plantes they called the Sing-Sing the Kob of Senegal; this 
may be a mistake for the Kob a. I may remark that the horns of 
the Koba in the same plate of Buffon are represented with more rings 
than are mentioned in the description. 
Colonel Hamilton Smith describes and figures a male and female 
specimen which were alive in Exeter Change, and figures the male 
and its skull and horns under the name of A. adenota, which well 
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