Similar in most essential characters to Bubalis, but distinguished by the frontals being quite normal, and not drawn upwards and backwards to form a horn-support. As a result the parietal surface of the skull faces upwards instead of backwards, and is easily visible between the horns in a vertical view of the skull.
The horns practically form a single simple or slightly lyrate curve in all the species, except D. hunteri, and in this, although there is a double sigmoid curve, no approximation is shown to the peculiarly abrupt double curvature characteristic of Bubalis.
Range of the Genus. Africa south of the Atlas.
As in the previous genus, the species of Damaliscus, seven in number, may be divided into groups based on the curvature and direction of the horns, as follows:—
| A. Horns with a double curve, slanting outwards and upwards, then bending slightly downwards almost at once, while their long points are again directed upwards | 1. D. hunteri. |
| B. Horns evenly curved backwards or slightly lyrate; the tips only recurved upwards. | |
| a. No white blaze on face | 2, 3, 4. D. korrigum, D. tiang, D. jimela. |
| b. Face with a white blaze | 5, 6. D. pygargus, D. albifrons. |
| C. Horns starting laterally outwards, with a single lunate curve upwards and backwards | 7. D. lunatus. |
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES. PL. VI.
Smit Lith.
Hanhart imp.
Hunter’s Antelope