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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History)
MY labours in the preparation of the greater part of this volume have been much lightened by Mr. Gilbert Blaine, who has been good enough to examine, name, and catalogue the Specimens in the Collection. In regard to the classifica tion of the heterogeneous group of ruminants commonly included under the designation of antelopes, it has been deemed advisable to follow the one adopted by Sclater and Thomas in The Book of Antelopes, with such minor modifica tions as are necessary in order to bring it, so far as possible, into accord with the emendations in regard to the position of certain generic groups and the limitations of subfamilies proposed by Mr. R. I. Pocock in his article on the Cutaneous scent-glands of Ruminants, published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1910.
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