The book of antelopes . Horns of Black-buck, S •(In the Collection of Mr. A. 0. Hume.) belonging to the splendid collection of these objects presented to the BritishMuseum by Mr. A. O. Hume, In order to show the large dimensions towhich the horns of the adult male Black-buck attain in Eajpootana andHumana we give a drawing (fig. 45) of a beautiful pair still in the possession ofMr. Hume, which attained a length of no less than 28j inches measured in astraight line. On referring to the long list of the dimensions of the horns of 14 this Antelope published in Mr. Rowland Wards Records of Bi
The book of antelopes . Horns of Black-buck, S •(In the Collection of Mr. A. 0. Hume.) belonging to the splendid collection of these objects presented to the BritishMuseum by Mr. A. O. Hume, In order to show the large dimensions towhich the horns of the adult male Black-buck attain in Eajpootana andHumana we give a drawing (fig. 45) of a beautiful pair still in the possession ofMr. Hume, which attained a length of no less than 28j inches measured in astraight line. On referring to the long list of the dimensions of the horns of 14 this Antelope published in Mr. Rowland Wards Records of Big Game, itwill be found that only one pair of greater length than the horns which Ave Fig Abnormal horns of female Indian Antelope.(In the collection of Mr. A. 0. Hume.) now figure have been hitherto recorded. We also give (fig. 46) a figure ofthe skull and abnormal horns of a female of this Antelope in Mr. HumesCollection. August, 1897. 15 Genus II. iEPYCEROS. , Sund. Pecora, K. Handl. 1845,, p. 271 (1847) . M. melampus. Size large. No anteorbital glands. Tail fairly long. False hoofs feet with glandular tufts of hair placed shortly above the hoofs. Skull without supraorbital pits or anteorbital fossae; lachrymal vacuitiessmall. Horns of male medium or rather long, broadly lyrate, half-ringed, slightlycompressed. Female hornless. Mange of the Genus. Southern Africa, northwards to Angola on the west,and to the Southern Soudan on the east. Of this genus we are at present prepared to recognize only two species—the Common Pallah of Southern and Eastern Africa {2E. melam/pus) and thatof Angola (JE. petersi). The latter may be readily dist
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