The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 3 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
There is a good stuffed specimen of an adult male Springbuck in the
Gallery of the British Museum. It was obtained by Mr. F. C. Selous at
Mahemfontein, in the Orange Free State, in 1896, and was presented to
the collection by that gentleman. From a pencil-note on the back of
Mr. Wolf’s sketch it would appear to have been taken from a specimen
of the head of this species formerly exhibited in the same Museum.
The National Collection has also some skins, skulls, and horns of the
Springbuck from various parts of South Africa; but good skulls of this
Antelope are still desiderata to the National Collection, and a series
of them, with dates and localities, would be much appreciated.
_August,_ 1897.
GENUS VI. GAZELLA.
Type.
_Gazella_, =Licht.= Mag. nat. Freund. Berl. vi.
pp. 152 & 171 (1814) G. SUBGUTTUROSA[3].
_Dorcas_, =Gray=, Med. Repos. xv. p. 307
(1821) G. DORCAS.
_Dama_, =Benn.= Tr. Z. S. i. p. 7 (1833) G. DAMA.
_Leptoceros_, =Wagn.= Schr. Säug. Suppl.
iv. p. 422 (1844) G. LEPTOCEROS.
_Procapra_, =Hodgs.= J. A. S. B. xv. p. 334
(1846) G. PICTICAUDATA.
_Tragops_, =id.= op. cit. xvi. p. 11 (1847) G. BENNETTI.
_Tragopsis_, =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. p. 157
(1869) G. BENNETTI.
_Eudorcas_, =id.= tom. cit. p. 159 (1869) G. “LÆVIPES.”
_Korin_, =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 39 (1872) G. RUFIFRONS.
_Nanger_, =Lataste=, Mamm. Barb. (Act. Bord.
xxxix.), sep. cop., p. 173 (1885) G. MHORR.
Size medium, but with a considerable range of variation. General form
normal; the muzzle simple, neither expanded as in _Pantholops_
nor elongated as in _Saiga_; the neck of ordinary length, and the
back without any evertible fold as in _Antidorcas_. Coloration
ordinarily sandy, with a white belly, the face generally marked with
dark and light streaks; streaks also generally present on the flanks
and rump. Knee-brushes usually present. Tail short or of medium length.
Skull generally with shallow anteorbital fossæ corresponding to
the anteorbital glands, but occasionally--in the _procaprine_
section--without any trace of them. Premolars 3/3, as usual in the
Bovines.
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