Genus IX. DORCOTRAGUS.
| Type. | |
| Dorcatragus, Noack, Zool. Auz. xvii. p. 202 (1894) | D. megalotis. |
Size very small, smaller than in any Gazelle. Ears large. Tail short. False hoofs minute; horny part of main hoofs short, but the internal pad to the hoof broad and thick; position of limbs in standing almost as in Oreotragus. No Gazelline head-markings, but a dark lateral band present on the sides of the body.
Skull broad and short. Nasals short and premaxillæ long, the structure in this region recalling that in Madoqua. Anteorbital region with a very small and shallow lacrymal fossa. Bullæ large and inflated. Premolars 3/3, the anterior very large.
Horns short, straight or faintly curved forwards, not unlike those of Raphiceros, and quite different from those of any true Gazelle. Female hornless.
Range of the Genus. Restricted to Somaliland.
One species only.
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. LXXV.
Smit del. et lith.