_Antilope brevicaudata_, =Rüpp.= MS. (N. Wirb. p. 25, 1835). _Antilope montana_, =Cretzschm.= Atl. Rüpp. Reise, Säug. p. 11, pl. iii. (Fazogloa Mts., Blue Nile) (1826); =J. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 469 (1829); =Rüpp.= N. Wirb. Abyss., Mamm. p. 25 (1835); =id.= P. Z. S. 1836, p. 3 (occurrence of canines); =Less.= Compl. Buff. x. p. 290 (1836); =Oken=, Allg. Nat. vii. p. 1362 (1838); =Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 623 (1839); =Less.= N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 177 (1842); =Wagn.= Schr. Säug., Suppl. iv. p. 431 (1844), v. p. 412 (1855); =Schinz=, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 421 (1845); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 316 (1854); =Huet=, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 34. _Redunca montana_, =A. Sm.= S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 211 (1834). _Tragelaphus montanus_, =Rüpp.= Verz. Senck. Mus. p. 37 (1842). _Calotragus montanus_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 193 (1846); =id.= Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 144; Reprint, p. 68 (1848); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 191 (1853); =Heugl.= Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) p. 8 (1863); =id.= Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 104 (1877). _Scopophorus montanus_, =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 232 (1846); =id.= op. cit. (2) viii. p. 137 (1851); =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 74 (1852); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1864, p. 101 (Karagweh); =Fitz.= SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 165 (1869); =Blanf.= Zool. Abyss. p. 266 (1870) (Dolo, Abyssinia); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 19 (1872); =Gigl.= Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 18 (1888) (Shoa); =Jent.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 160 (1892). _Nanotragus montanus_, =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 642 & 875; =W. Scl.= Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. ii. p. 166 (1891); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 339 (1891); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 82 (1892); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 218 (1893); =Jackson=, Badm. Big Game Shooting, pp. 285 & 299 (1894). _Antilope madoqua_, =Schweinfurth=, Herz. von Afrika, i. p. 266, fig. head, ii. p. 535 (1874) (_nec_ H. Sm., _nec_ Rüpp.). VERNACULAR NAMES:--_H’Amra_, _Atrob_, or _Odrob_ in Arabic; _Fiego_ in Amharic; _Waital_ in Geez (_Heuglin_); _Lohdj_ in Dinka; _Nettjäde_ in Djur; _Heggoleh_ in Bongo; _Kullah_ in Mittu; _Bongbaljah_ in Niam-niam; _Laffa_ in Golo; _Kehdo_ in Kredj; _Ngogoh_ in Ssehre; _Akonj_ in Shilluk (_Schweinfurth_). Similar to _O. scoparia_ in most respects, but the tail shorter, less bushy, and almost wholly of the colour of the back, the terminal black tuft being reduced to a few darker hairs at the extreme tip; there are also a considerable number of white hairs along each side of it below. Auricular gland large, quite naked. Skull dimensions (♂):--Basal length 5·65 inches, greatest breadth 2·95, muzzle to orbit 3·44. _Hab_. Abyssinia and Bongoland.