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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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quite minute. Colouringof the head less typically Gazelline than in Ammodorcas, but a modificationof the light lateral body-line present. Skull (see fig. 85, p. 231) excessively long and low, the cranial partbehind the horns particularly lengthened ; the bones of this part very solidand stony. Bullae low and opaque. A shallow anteorbital fossa present.Premaxillse not reaching the nasals. Lower jaw slender and delicate. 3 Premolars 3, the anterior one above almost as large as the second. Horns thick, oval in section, very closely ringed, curved backwards as inmany species of Gazella for the greater part of their length, their middleportion more or less lyrate, as in Gazella dorcas, their tips recurved upwardsor forwards. Female hornless. Range of the Genus. Somaliland and British East Africa.One species only. * Misprinted Litocranius in the original description. The name is based on the solid stonycharacter, of the cranium (\idos = lapis). VOL. III. ^ 1 THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES.PL LXXTv.
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