40 SJOSTEDTS KILIMAND.TARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 2. 



Kilimandjaro district, as there appears to be characteristics pointing in such a di- 

 rection, but for such a proceeding more material is needed. 



The kid is per analogiam counted to the same species as the adult. 



The black nasal mark of the female extends as a band to the base of the 

 blackish tuft on the crown in strong contrast to the rufous face ; chin and throat 

 whitish. 



Rli;i|>liioenis ncumanni sti^niatus n. subsp. ?. 

 (PI. 6, fig. 3). 



Pediotragus neumanni MATSCHIE: Saugethiere Ost-Afrikas, p. 120. 



Kilimandjaro: 1 cf killed near the Natron! akes % 1905. - Mem: 1 J 1 killed 

 near Ngare na Nyuki 24 /io 1905. 



Both these specimens differ from MATSCHIE'S description in liaving a dark 

 triangular spot on the nose. This spot is, however, not black but only dark brown 

 in contrast to the rufous face. As the specimens otherwise fully agree with 

 MATSCHIE'S description and at the same time differ from the southern type Pedio- 

 tragus campestris THUNBERG I have not hesitated to refer them as above to the 

 neumanni type. But if the Steenbok of -Kilimandjaro proves to possess in all cases 

 a dark brown nasal marking and NEUMANN'S Steenbok from Ugogo never has such 

 a one' I think the former must be regarded as a separate subspecies and I propose 

 then for the same the third name stigmatus. The difference does not only consist 

 in the absence of the horseshoe-shaped dark marking on the crown, but there are 

 characters derived from the hoofs and skull as well which allow the two species to 

 be easily distinguished from each other. P. campestris appears to have rather long 

 hoofs for such a small antelope. In his monograph The species of the Antelope- 

 genus Pediotragus JENTINK S writes about P. campestris: 3 hoofs of fore legs: length 

 above 2,93,5 cm., crown l,7cm. In a couple of specimens in this museum I have 

 found the corresponding measurements to be resp. 2,fi 3,7 and 1,7 1,9 cm. while the 

 same measurements of the present two specimens of R. neumanni (two old bucks) 

 are: length above 2,i 2,4 cm. and crown (1,7) 1,9 2 cm. These differences in the 

 measurements give the hoofs a quite different shape. They are short and high in 

 R. neumanni and wholly black. 



The skull of P,. neumanni stigmatus is very roughened above. The brims of the 

 orbit are more protruding, and the orbit itself seems to be larger. This is apparent from 

 the following measurements, taken from one of the skulls of 7?. n. stigmatus (the one 

 slightly smaller than the other) and a skull of P. campestris from this museum which 

 both have the same basicranial length viz. 121 mm. and which both have belonged 

 to fully adult bucks. 



1 MATSCHIE has in a letter to the author kindly confirmed this fact. 



2 Notes Leyden Mus. Vol. XXII. 



3 The author quoted has invented a new name P. Horstochii* which, however, is quite unnecessary as 

 will be shown later on. 



