The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
_Acronotus caama_, =A. Sm.= S. Afr. Q. J. ii. p. 221 (1834);
=Harris=, Wild Sport S. Afr. p. 377 (1839); =id.= op. cit. 5th
ed. pl. x. (animal) (1852); =id.= Wild An. S. Afr. (fol.) pl.
vii. (animal) (1840); =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 157 (1843);
=id.= List Ost. B. M. p. 58 (1847).
_Bubalus caama_, =A. Sm.= Ill. Zool. S. Afr. pl. xxx. (animal)
(1840).
_Bubalis caama_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p.
208 (1846); =id.= Hornschuh’s Transl. p. 83 (1848); =Temm.= Esq.
Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 218, woodcut
(animal) (1880); =Nicholls & Egl.= Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 45, pl.
iv. fig. 13 (head) (1892); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 56 (1892);
=Selous=, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 1
(hybrid with _Damaliscus lunatus_); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p.
196, fig. 37 (animal) (1893).
_Boselaphus caama_, =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233
(1846); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 139; =id.= Knowsl. Men. p. 20,
pl. xx. fig. 2 (animal) (1850); =Blyth=, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p.
170 (1863); =id.= P. Z. S. 1869, p. 52, figs. 4 & 5 (horns).
_Alcelaphus caama_, =Gray=, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 124, pl. xvi.
figs. 1–3 (skull and horns) (1852); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones Mamm.
B. M. p. 243 (1862); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872);
=id.= Hand-l. Rum. p. 115 (1873); =Buckley=, P. Z. S. 1876,
pp. 285 & 292; 1877, p. 454 (distribution); =Rütimeyer=, Rind.
Tert.-Epoch. p. 47 (1877); =Selous=, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 763
(distribution); =id.= Hunter’s Wanderings, p. 224, pl. vii.
figs. 5 & 6 (head) (1881); =Scl.= List Anim. Zool. Soc. (8) p.
148 (1883); id. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 411; =Flow. & Gars.= Cat. Ost.
Coll. Surg. ii. p. 272 (1884); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus.
(Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 139 (1887); =Bryden=, Kloof and Karroo,
p. 291 (1889); =Lyd.= Field, lxxvii. p. 858, fig. 1 (animal)
(1891); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 335, fig. 137 (animal) (1891);
=Scl.= f. Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 170 (1891); =Jent.= Cat.
Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 171 (1892); =Distant=,
Transvaal, p. 12 (1892); =Bryden=, Gun and Camera, p. 505 (1893)
(Kalahari Desert).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Hartebeest_ of Cape Dutch and English;
_Khama_ of Bechuanas, and the same, with a click, of Masaras;
_Ingama_ of Makalakas (_Selous_); _Inhluzele_ of Zulus
(_Drummond_).
Size large; height at withers about 48 inches. Suborbital gland
present, and provided with a distinct tuft. General colour brownish
fulvous, darker than in any of the previous species; face with a black
blaze running up to the horns, but interrupted between the eyes; back
of neck with a dark line from the horns to the withers; chin blackish,
outer sides of shoulders and hips black. These darker markings are not
visible in the young. Lower part of rump behind whitish or yellowish,
contrasting markedly with its dark upperside.
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