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Show 20 DR. A: GtTNTHER ON TWO [Jan. 6, The peculiar conformation of the facial bones is clearly in.relation to the developed distensible nasal cavity of this animal The root of the nasal cavity is supported by cartilage rather^than by bone to admit of greater flexibility; hence the reduction of the nasal Fig. 5. Fig. 6. Fig. 5. Skull of Neotragus kirkii; upper view. Fig. 6. Upper view of facial bone of Neotragus saltianus. bones in Neotragus is perfectly analogous to a similar structure in the Saiga Antelope and in the Tapirs. Since I wrote the preceding remarks Mr. Sclater has kindly placed in m y hands a specimen which he had received from Mr. R. Trimen, Curator of the South-African Museum. It had been obtained in Damara Land, and proves to be a third species of this genus, for which I propose the name of Neotragus damarensis. The specimen is the skin of an adult female, from which I have had the skull extracted. Externally this species resembles so much the Abyssinian N. saltianus that it might be taken for a variation of colour. The crest of long cranial hairs is more decidedly black behind than I have seen it in Abyssinian specimens, the majority of the cranial hairs being broadly annulated with black and yellow. The back of the trunk is finely grizzled with black and brownish yellow, the latter colour being replaced behind by grey. The black rings of all |
