50 SJOSTEDTS KILIMAND.TARO-MERTT EXPEDITION. 2. 



dark as the foregoing but must be said to be chestnut all over the back becoming 

 rufous on the flanks and fading almost to buff below. There are only a few scattered 

 white spots on the hindquarters two of which at the groin are better visible than 

 the others. There is no trace of any stripes and no white spot in front of the eye. 



e) 1 young buck still possessing the milk-molars and with only the first per- 

 manent molar cut, shot in Nov. 1905 at Kilimandjaro, Kibonoto, is still paler and 

 somewhat more spotted. Its general colour is rufous with the neck and the back 

 above the shoulders smoky brown. The hair at the base of the neck is short. On 

 one side may be counted 7 on the other 10 white spots. Two faint transversal 

 stripes may be traced. No horns are developed and not even visible on the skull. 



/) 1 young female from Kilimandjaro, Kibonoto, 15 /? 1905 in about the same 

 stage af development or perhaps a little older and with the second molar just 

 coming, is rufous with numerous white spots on the hindquarters and three trans- 

 versal stripes on either side. These stripes are very faintly developed and only to 

 be traced by single hairs. The hair at the base of the neck is just beginning to 

 become short. No white spot in front of the eye. 



g) 1 somewhat older female from the Natron lakes, Kilimandjaro Meru, Nov. 

 1905 with the second molar in use but with the third not yet cut has still more 

 white markings. The white spots on the hindquarters are numerous. A longitudinal 

 series of strongly developed spots runs along the lower portion of the sides above 

 the bell} 7 . Half a dozen transversal white stripes are more or less developed. The 

 hair all over the neck is very short. The general colour of the body is rufous a little 

 brighter than e) and /). 



There is thus not two specimens fully alike in the whole lot. The differences 

 are not to be interpreted as due only to age or sex. The only thing that plainly 

 stands in connection with the age is the condition of the hair on the neck. It is 

 always shorter and worn off on a greater area of the neck in an older individual 

 than in a younger. One negative characteristic all these specimens have in common 

 and that is the absence of the white spot in the face in front of the eye which is 

 to be seen on the plate of Trayelapkns roualei/ui in the >Book of Antelopes*, but all 

 of them have the two round white spots on the cheeks. Otherwise as well the 

 general colour as the markings are variable. 



The Bushbuck of German East Africa has generally been regarded as Trage- 

 hiph-us roualeyni by most authors. NEUMANN created the name Tr. massaicus 1 for 

 the Bushbuck of German and British East Africa* and described the type from 

 upper Bubu, Northwestern Irangi. This description indicates, however, a quite dif- 

 ferent-looking animal. The buck is said to have mehrere weisse Flecke an den 

 Wangen, and in addition to this, je ein weisser Fleck am Nasenriicken. To be an 

 old buck it has rather many white markings on the body. too. Weisser Riicken- 

 kamm von dem jederseits vier niehr oder weniger deutliche Querstreifen herabgehen. 

 Zahlreiche weisse, deutlich ausgepragte Flecke auf den Hinterkeulen. Auch jederseits 



1 Sitzber. Ges. Xaturf. Freunde, Berlin 1902, p. 90. 



