. The book of antelopes . e side and below they look rather cork-screwlike in shape. The tail, especially at the end, is more tufted and morestrongly haired than in other Antelopes of this genus, and reaches downnearly to the heels. On his return to Vienna about the year 1854, besides a series of skins andskulls, Heuglin brought with him an adult living female of this Antelope,which was placed in the Imperial Menagerie at Schonbrunn, but did not long survive. Its arrival was chronicled by Fitzinger in his Report to theAcademy of Sciences of Vienna upon the living animals brought home forthe Im
. The book of antelopes . e side and below they look rather cork-screwlike in shape. The tail, especially at the end, is more tufted and morestrongly haired than in other Antelopes of this genus, and reaches downnearly to the heels. On his return to Vienna about the year 1854, besides a series of skins andskulls, Heuglin brought with him an adult living female of this Antelope,which was placed in the Imperial Menagerie at Schonbrunn, but did not long survive. Its arrival was chronicled by Fitzinger in his Report to theAcademy of Sciences of Vienna upon the living animals brought home forthe Imperial Menagerie at Schonbrunn by Heuglin. and its proposed namewas given as ^ Adenota megaceros, Heuglin, but unfortunately no sort ofdescription was added. Nor, so far as we can make out, did Pleuglin publishany characters of his Adenota megaceros until the appearance of his articleon the Antelopes and Buffaloes of North-east Africa, which was issued by theImperial Leopoldino-Carolinian Academy in 1863. Kff. 33. ^385*=^. Head of Cohus maria, S •(Copied from Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) iv. p. 297.) In the meanwhile, however, another explorer of the Nile region had foundhis way home and brought with him heads of both sexes of the sameAntelope. This was Consul Petherick, who after fifteen years passed inthese districts * returned in 1859, and brought with him a collection of headsand horns of animals, which were acquired by the British Museum throughMr. Samuel Stevens, a well-known dealer in objects of Natural History atthat period. Amongst these were good heads of both sexes of the present * See his work Egypt, Sudan, and the White Nile, London, Blackwood & Co., II. S 124 Antelope. The late Dr. Gray lost but little time in preparing descriptionsof these striking objects, which were published in the Annals of NaturalHistory for October of that year. We are indebted to the proprietors of thatexcellent journal for allowing us to copy the wood-block (fig. 33), whichrepresents t
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