The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
_Portax picta_, =Less.= Compl. Buffon, x. p. 304 (1836); =Gray=, List
Mamm. B. M. p. 154 (1843); =Jardine=, Nat. Libr. xxii. p. 182, pl.
xvi. (1845); =Wagner=, Schreb. Säug. Suppl. iv. p. 467 (1844); =id.=
op. cit. v. p. 450 (1855); =Reichenb.= Säug. iii. p. 148 (1845);
=Hutton=, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xv. p. 150 (1846); =Gray=, Cat. Ost.
B. M. p. 59 (1847); =Horsf.= Cat. Mamm. E.-I. Comp. p. 170 (1851);
=Jerdon=, Mamm. India, p. 272 (1867); =Fitz.= SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt.
1, p. 181 (1869); =McMaster=, Notes on Jerdon’s Mamm. p. 122 (1870);
=Kinloch=, Large Game Shooting, i. p. 55 (1876); =Brehm=, Thierl. iii.
p. 251, fig. (1880); =Sterndale=, Mamm. Ind. p. 476 (1884); =Kinloch=,
Large Game Shooting, p. 93 (1885); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus.
Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 141 (1887); =id.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-
Bas, xi.) p. 173 (1892); =Percy=, Badminton Big Game Shooting, ii. p.
353 (1894).
_Antilope albipes_, =Erxl.= Syst. R. A. p. 280 (1777); =Gatterer=, Brev.
Zool. pt. i. p. 81 (1780); Zoogn. iii. p. 411 (1814).
_Boselaphus albipes_, =Desm.= Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. N. (2) ii. p. 199, pl.
xxxiii. fig. 2 (1816).
_Antilope leucopus_, =Zimm.= Spec. Zool. Geogr. p. 541 (1777); =Forst.=
Zool. Ind. p. 39 (1795); =id.= Descr. Anim. p. 377 (1844).
_Damalis risia_, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. iv. p. 363 (1827); =Elliot=,
Madras Journ. x. p. 226 (1839).
_Damalis (Portax) risia_, =H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. v. p. 366 (1827).
_Tragelaphus hippelaphus_, =Ogilby=, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 138; =Rüpp.=
Verz. Senck. Mus. iii. pt. 2, p. 181 (1839).
_Nyl-ghau_, =Wm. Hunter=, Phil. Trans. lxi. p. 170 (1771).
_White-footed Antelope_, =Penn.= Syn. p. 29, pl. vi. (1771); =id.=
Quadr. i. p. 74, pl. vii. (1781); =id.= op. cit. ed. 3, p. 83, pl.
xiii. (1793).
Vernacular Names:—_Nil, Nilgao_ (♂), _Nilgai_ (♀); _Roz Rojh, Rojra_ in
Hindustani; _Rú-i_ in Dakhani, Mahratti, and Guzrati; _Guraya_, Gond;
_Murim_ (♂), _Susam_ (♀), in Ho Kal; _Mánú-potú_ in Tamil; _Mairu
Maravi, Kard-Kadrai_, Canarese (_Blanford_).
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