The book of antelopes . and Kumaon from the Hume Collection. H 2 52 Our illustration (Plate L.), which represents a male of this animal in asnowstorm, has been put upon the stone by Mr. Smit from a coloureddrawing prepared by Mr. Wolf under the directions of the late Sir VictorBrooke. August, 1897. 53 Genus V. ANTIDORCAS. , Sund. Pecora, K. Handl. 1845, p. 271 (1847). A. euchore. General characters as in Gazella, but, as in Saiga tatarica alone of Rumi-nants, with only two lower premolars, and the upper anterior premolar reducedto half the size of the second. Back with
The book of antelopes . and Kumaon from the Hume Collection. H 2 52 Our illustration (Plate L.), which represents a male of this animal in asnowstorm, has been put upon the stone by Mr. Smit from a coloureddrawing prepared by Mr. Wolf under the directions of the late Sir VictorBrooke. August, 1897. 53 Genus V. ANTIDORCAS. , Sund. Pecora, K. Handl. 1845, p. 271 (1847). A. euchore. General characters as in Gazella, but, as in Saiga tatarica alone of Rumi-nants, with only two lower premolars, and the upper anterior premolar reducedto half the size of the second. Back with a peculiar elongate evertiblefold in the skin. Skull with small but particularly deep anteorbital fossa?, no anteorbitalvacuities, and very broad and open posterior nares. Horns medium, lyrate, twisted inwards, with a double serpentine curvature,convex inwards and in front below, outwards and behind above. The pointsturned inwards or backwards. Sange of Genus. Africa south of the Zambesi. THE BOOK OF ,. WoUdel The Springtyuc kANT I DORCAS EUCHORE Mhshed Hanhari imp. 55 8i. THE SPRINGBUCK. ANTIDORCAS EUCHOEE (Zimm.).[PLATE LI.] La Gazelle a bourse sur le dos, Allamand, ia Schneiders ed. of Buffons Hist. Nat., Suppl. iv. p. 142, pi. lx. (1778) ; id. Buff. H. N., Suppl. vi. p. 180 (Paris, 1782).Antilope marsupialis, Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 427 (1780) ; Bechst. Syst. Uebers. vierf. Thiere, ii. p. 645 (1800).Cemas marsupialis, Oken, Lehrb. Nat. iii. pt. 2, p. 738 (1816).Springbok, Sparrm. K. Handl. 1780, p. 275; id. Reise, p. 396, pi. viii. (1784) ; id. Engl, transl. ii. p. 83 (1786) ; Daniell, Afr. Scenery, no. 18 (1812).Antilope euchore, Forst., Zimm. Geogr. Gesch. iii. p. 269 (1783) ; Schr. Saug. pi. cclxxii. (1787) ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 344 (1801) ; G. Cav. Diet. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 232 (1804) ; Licht. Mag. nat. Freund. vi. p. 169 (1814); G. Fisch. Zoogn. iii. p. 423 (1814) ; Afz. N. Act. Ups. vii. p. 220 (1815); Desm.
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