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The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)

Chapter 49: FOOTNOTES:
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This volume provides systematic accounts of large African antelopes, treating hippotragine and tragelaphine groups. It organizes taxa by genus and species, giving detailed morphological descriptions, skull and horn characters, measurements, variations, and subspecies distinctions, along with information on geographic distribution and habitat. Each entry is accompanied by plates and figure descriptions illustrating skins, horns, skulls, and behavior. The text includes identification keys, discussion of taxonomy and synonymy, notes on rarity and extinction for certain species, and an appendix listing species and subspecies newly described during the work.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Temminck’s footnote, Esq. Zool. s. l. Côte de Guiné, p. 192; and Jentink, Mus. de P.-B. xi. (7) p. 166.

[2] Resa till Goda Hopps-udden, p. 627 (1783).

[3] Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Mamm. sub tab. xxviii. (H. equinus).

[4] ‘Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South Africa,’ p. 93.

[5] P. Z. S. 1881, p. 756.

[6] See ‘Field,’ lxxxviii. p. 764 (1896).

[7] See P. Z. S. 1896, p. 981.

[8] See P. Z. S. 1898, p. 349.

[9] Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 26.

[10] In our Plate XCI. the tail has been incorrectly represented as short and bushy, as in the other species of Tragelaphus.

[11] Vide Sitz. Ak. Wien, Bd. lix. p. 175 (1869).

[12] Based upon a horn which, from the description, might be referred to almost any species of the Tragelaphinæ, except Boselaphus, or even to Capra falconeri.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

3. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.