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CHAP. XVII.] Mammalia. 223
a very peculiar form more nearly allied to the buffaloes than
to any other type of oxen.
, Sub-family
II. Tragelaphin^ (3 genera, 11 species). The
Bovine Antelopes are large and handsome animals, mostly
Ethiopian, but extending into the adjacent parts of the Palfe-
arctic and Oriental regions. The genera are : Oreas (2 sp.),
elands, inhabiting all Tropical and South Africa. Tragela-
phus (8 sp.), including the bosch-bok, kudu, and other large
antelopes, ranges over all Tropical and South Africa (Plate IV.,
vol. ii., p. 261). Poftax (1 sp.) India, but rare in Madras and
north of the Ganges.
Sub-family III. Oeygin^ (2 genera, 5 species). Oryx (4 sp.) is
a desert genus, ranging over all the African deserts to South
Arabia and Syria ; Addax (1 sp.) inhabits North Africa, North
Arabia, and Syria.
Sub-family IV. HiPPOTEAGiNiE (1 genus, 3 species). The
Sable Antelopes, Hippotragus, form an isolated group inhabiting
the open country of Tropical Africa and south to the Cape.
Sub-family V. Gazellin^ (6 genera, 23 species). This is
a group of small or moderate-sized animals, most abundant in
the deserts on the borders of the Palsearctic, Oriental, and
Ethiopian regions. Gazella (17 sp.) is typically a Palsearctic
desert group, ranging over the great desert plateaus of North
Africa, from Senegal and Abyssinia to Syria, Persia, Beloo-
chistan, and the plains of India, with one outlying species in
South Africa. Procapra (2 sp.). Western Thibet and Mongolia
to about 110° east longitude. Antilope (1 sp.) inhabits all the
plains of India. JSpyceros (1 sp.) the pallah, inhabits the open
country of South and South-east Africa. Saiga (1 sp.) a singular
sheep-faced antelope, which inhabits the steppes of Eastern
Europe and Western Asia from Poland to the Irtish Eiver,
south of 55° north latitude. (Plate II., vol. i., p. 218.) Pan-
tlmlops (1 sp.) confined to the highlands of Western Thibet and
perhaps Turkestan.
Sub-family VI. Antilocappjn^. (1 genus, 1 species), Antilo-
capra, the prong-horned antelope, inhabit both sides of the
Eocky Mountains, extending north to the Saskatchewan and