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Identifier: bookofantelopes318942scla (find matches)
Title: The book of antelopes
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929 Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, ill Williams, Alpheus F., former owner. DSI National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
Subjects: Antelopes
Publisher: London : R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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parate horns from the extreme southof the Somali coast, obtained by Sir John Kirk. September, 1898. 2E2 239 Genus IX. DORCOTRAGUS. Type. Dorcatragus, Noack, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 202 (1894) D. megalotis. Size very small, smaller than in any Gazelle. Ears large. Tail short.False hoofs minute; horny part of main hoofs short, but the internal padto the hoof broad and thick ; position of limbs in standing almost as inOreotragus. No Gazelline head-markings, but a dark lateral band presenton the sides of the body. Skull broad and short. Nasals short and premaxillse long, the structurein this region recalling that in Madoqua. Anteorbital region with a very small and shallow lacrymal fossa. Bulla? large and inflated. Premolars ^the anterior very large. Horns short, straight or faintly curved forwards, not unlike those ofEaphiceros, and quite different from those of any true Gazelle. Femalehornless. Mange of the Genus. Restricted to Somaliland.One species only. THE BOOK OP ANTELOPES.PL. LXXV. C*
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Sirut de.1et hth* . The Beira. DOR COTRAGUS MEOAL O TISPublished hj M-Porier. .„!• an (ny>, 241 iog. THE BEIRA. DORCOTRAGUS MEGALOTIS (Menges).(PLATE LXXV.) Behra, Menges, Peterm. Mitth. xxxi. p. 454 (1885) (Hekebo plateau). Beira, Scl. P. Z. S. 1892, pp. 102, 118; Swayne, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 308. Oreotragus megalotis, Menges, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 131 (1894); Swayne, Seventeen Trips to Somaliland, p. 321 (1895).Dorcotragus megalotis, Noack, Zool. Anz. xvii. p. 202 (1894) ; Hoyos, Zu den Aulihan, p. 186 (1895); Elliot, Publ. Chicago Mus. Zool. i. p. 135 (1897) (Hargeisa). Vernacular Name:—Beira of Somalis (Swayne). Size about as in the Steinbok or Grysbok; height at withers 20 inches inan adult male. General colour of neck and back a peculiar purplish grey,very finely grizzled with white, the extreme tips of the hairs being this lattercolour. Scarcely a trace of a light lateral band, but a distinct dark onepresent, brownish, passing quite across the shoulder, and extending behind

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