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Antilope sylvatica, Sparmann, Act. Holm. iii. t. 7.— Tragelaphus 
sylvatica, Harris, W. A. A. t. 26 ; Gray, Knowsley Menag. 28.— 
Forest Antelope , Pennant. 
Inhabits S. Africa; Cape of Good Hope. Brit. Mus. 
Far A Smaller horns, rather more erect. 
Antelopus Ronleynei (the Serolomoot broque ), Ronaleyn; G. Cum- 
ming, Hunter’s Life S. A. ii. 1/8, 1/9. 
Inhabits Limpopo. 
The two pairs of horns, named by Colonel H. Smith Boselaphus 
canna {a, b, in the List of Mamm. 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. 
Horns short, conical, angular, with an obscure oblique ridge ; tear- 
bag deep, longitudinal; shoulders higher than the rump. 
1. Portax tragocameltjs. The Nylghau. 
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 foredegs 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. 5.-— A. picta, Pallas, Spicil. 
xiii. 54; Gray, Cat. B. M .—A. albipes, Erxl. 280.— A. leucopus, 
Zimm. Zool. 541.—- Damalis (Portax) Risia, H. Smith.— Portax picta, 
Gray, Cat. B. M.—P. Tragocamelus, Gray, Knows. Menag. 28. t. 29. 
— Tragelaphus Hippelaphus, Ogilby.—P. Tragelaphus, Sundev.— 
Biggel, Mandelst. Beise (1658), p. 122.— Tragelaphus Caii, Raii Syn. 
82?; Parsons, Phil. Trans. No. 476. p. 465. t. 3. f. 9.—A ylghau. 
Hunter, Phil. Trans, lxi. 170. t. 5.— Nilghaut, Buff on, H. N. Supp. 
v. t. 10, 11 ; F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithog. t. .— Indostan Antelope, 
Penn. Syn. 29.— White-footed Antelope, Penn. Syn. 29. t. 6. f. 1, 2. 
Inhabits India. The Roou of the Mahrattas, the Nylghau of the 
Persians. 
This species has bred at Knowsley. In December 1845 they had 
two calves, both females, making a flock of one male and four fe¬ 
males; they are in the paddock with the Eland in summer. They 
have also bred in the Gardens of the Zoological Society (See P. Z. S. 
1831, 37), and in the Menagerie of Sir Robert Heron at Shibton. 
