Oreotragus scoparius, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 164 (1843); id. List Ost. B. M. p. 146 (1847); Drumm. Large Game S. Afr. p. 426 (1875).
Calotragus scoparius, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 192 (1846); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 144, Reprint, p. 68 (1848); Brehm, Thierl. iii. p. 260 (1880).
Nanotragus scoparius, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 642; Selous, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 761; id. Hunt. Wand. S. Afr. p. 221 (1881); Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 301 (1889); Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 339 (1891); Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 25, pl. v. fig. 15 (head) (1892); Ward, Horn Meas. p. 81 (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 218 (1893).
Scopophorus scoparius, Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 131 (1887); id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit xi.) p. 160 (1892).
Neotragus scoparius, Rendall, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 361.
Antilope melanura, Bechst. Allgem. Uebers. vierf. Thiere, i. p. 73 (1799), ii. p. 642 (1800).
Cemas melanura, Oken, Lehrb. Nat. iii. pt. 2, p. 743 (1816).
Scopophorus ourebi grayi, Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 165 (1869).
Vernacular Names:—Oribi of Dutch and English Cape Colonists; Iula of Kaffirs (Drummond) and Zulus (Rendall).
Size comparatively large. General colour bright sandy rufous, of underside pure sharply-defined white. Chin white. Throat and outer side of limbs like back. Above the anterior corner of each eye a white stripe, ending over the middle of the eye. Crown with or without a brown patch or horseshoe-shaped mark, which is very variable in its development. Auricular gland small, indistinct, scarcely more than half an inch in diameter. Knees with well-marked tufts of longer hairs. Small but distinct false hoofs present both on fore and hind feet. Tail with its tuft about four or five inches in length, its basal third sandy rufous like the back, the remainder thickly tufted, black.