Part 9

August, 1897.

GENUS III. SAIGA.

Type. Saiga, =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. xxvi (1843) S. TATARICA. Colus, =Wagner=, Schreber’s Säugeth. Suppl. iv. p. 419 (1844) S. TATARICA.

Size medium. Nose large, elongate, bent downwards, and inflated; the nostrils opening downwards. Tail short. Mammæ 4. Accessory hoofs present.

Skull with short nasals and premaxillaries, and an exceedingly large and high nasal opening; small supraorbital pits; no lachrymal vacuities; anteorbital fossæ shallow. Lower premolars two, at least in the recent species.

Horns of medium length, cylindrical, rather irregularly lyrate, strongly ringed, pale whitish or amber-coloured. Female hornless.

Range of the Genus. Steppes of S.E. Europe and Western Asia.

One species only.

THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XLIX.

Wolf del. J. Smit lith. Hanhart imp.

The Saiga

SAIGA TATARICA.

Published by R. H. Porter.]

79. THE SAIGA.

SAIGA TATARICA (LINN.).

Ibex imberbis, =Gmel.= N. Comm. Ac. Petrop. v. p. 345 (1760) & vii. p. 39, pl. xix. (♂ ♀) (1761). (Not binomial.)

Le Saiga, =Buff.= Hist. Nat. xii. p. 198, pl. xxii. fig. 2 (horn) (1764).

Capra tatarica, =Linn.= Syst. Nat. (12) i. p. 97 (1766) (ex Gmel.); =Müll.= Natursyst. i. p. 417 (1773).

Saiga tatarica, =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 160 (1843); =id.= List Ost. B. M. p. 55 (1847); =id.= Knowsl. Men. p. 3 (1850); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 112; =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 51, pl. vi. figs. 1 & 2 (skull) (1852); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 189 (1853); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 231 (1862); =Glitsch=, Bull. Soc. Moscow, 1865, p. 207; =Sclat.= P. Z. S. 1867, p. 240, pl. xvii.; =Murie=, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 451 (anatomy & position); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 33 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 102 (1873); =Scl.= List An. Z. S. (8) p. 143 (1883), (9) p. 157 (1896); =Flow. & Gars.= Cat. Coll. Surg. ii. p. 265 (1884); =Sterndale=, Mamm. Ind. p. 468 (1884); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 341 (1891); =Ward=, Horn Meas. (1) p. 101 (1892), (2) p. 145 (1896); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 163 (1893).

Antilope tatarica, =Forst.= Descr. Anim. p. 390 (1844); =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p. 270 (1847); =id.= Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 266; Reprint, p. 86 (1848).

Colus tataricus, =Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 283 (1880).

Antilope saiga, =Pall.= Misc. Zool. p. 6 (1766); =id.= Spic. Zool. xii. pp. 14 & 21 (1777); =Zimm.= Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 121 (1780); =Bodd.= Elench. Anim. p. 143 (1785); =Schr.= Säug. pl. cclxxvi. (1787); =Gmel.= Linn. S. N. i. p. 185 (1788); =Kerr=, Linn. An. K. p. 309 (1792); =Donnd.= Zool. Beytr. i. p. 626 (1792); =Link=, Beytr. Nat. ii. p. 99 (1795); =G. Cuv.= Tabl. Élém. p. 163 (1798); =Bechst.= Syst. Uebers. vierf. Thierr. ii. p. 645 (1800); =Shaw=, Gen. Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 339 (1801); =Turt.= Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 112 (1802); =G. Cuv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 229 (1804); =Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. N. (1) xxiv. Tabl. p. 33 (1804); =Tiedem.= Zool. i. p. 409 (1808); =Pall.= Zoogr. Ross.-As. i. p. 252 (1811); =G. Fisch.= Zoogn. iii. p. 428 (1814); =Afz.= N. Act. Ups. vii. p. 220 (1815); =Desm.= N. Dict. d’H. N. (2) ii. p. 181 (1816); =G. Cuv.= R. A. i. p. 261 (1817); =Goldf.= Schr. Säug. v. p. 1216 (1818); =Schinz=, Cuv. Thierr. i. p. 389 (1821); =Desmoul.= Dict. Class. d’H. N. i. p. 44–2. (1822); =Desm.= Mamm. ii. p. 452 (1822); =Less.= Man. Mamm. p. 391 (1827); =J. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 458 (1829); =Less.= Compl. Buff. x. p. 289 (1836); =Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 616 (1839); =Gerv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. i. p. 260 (1840); =Less.= N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 176 (1842); =Wagn.= Schr. Säug. Suppl. iv. p. 420 (1844), v. p. 402 (1855); =Schinz=, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 408 (1845); =id.= Mon. Antil. p. 12 (1848); =Gieb.= Säug. p. 313 (1853); =Nehring=, Z. Ges. Erdkunde Berl. xxvi. pp. 327 & 338 (1891) (distribution); =id.= Zool. Gart. 1891, p. 328.

Capra sayga, =Forst.= Phil. Trans. lvii. p. 344 (1767).

Antilope (Gazella) saiga, =Licht.= Mag. nat. Freund. vi. p. 171 (1814).

Cerophorus (Antilope) saiga, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75.

Colus saiga, =Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 161 (1809).

Saiga saiga, =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 134 (1887); =id.= Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 165 (1892).

Antilope scythica, =Pall.= Spic. Zool. fasc. i. p. 9 (1767); =Müll.= Natursyst. Suppl. p. 53 (1776); =Erxl.= Syst. R. A. p. 289 (1777); =Zimm.= Spec. Zool. Geog. p. 541 (1777); =Gatt.= Brev. Zool. i. p. 83 (1780); =Oken=, Allg. Naturg. vii. p. 1365 (1838).