Horns present in both sexes, those of the female as long, but not so thick, as those of the male, placed close together at their bases; doubly curved, first rising outwards or backwards, then curved forwards and upwards, and then bent abruptly backwards and upwards at their tips.
Range of the Genus. Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
This genus, containing the Hartebeests, is a very natural and well-defined one, and is curiously shown to be so by the fact that, so far as is as yet known, the ranges of the different species nowhere overlap each other, whilst almost every part of the range of the genus possesses its single representative species.
The members of the genus fall into four rather definite groups, as follows:—
| A. Frontal horn-pedicle short; horns forming a when viewed in front | 1, 2. B. buselaphus, B. major. |
| B. Horn-pedicle moderate; horns forming an inverted bracket. | 3, 4, 5. B. tora, B. swaynei, B. cokei. |
| C. Horn-pedicle extremely elongated; horns forming a V when viewed in front | 6, 7. B. caama, B. jacksoni. |
| D. Horn-pedicle very short and broad; horns much curved inwards towards each other before the final backward turn. | 8. B. lichtensteini. |
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES. Pl. I.
Smit lith.
Hanhart imp.
The Bubal.