286 Miscellaneous. 



Description of a new species of Antelope from West Africa. 

 By J. E. Gray, Esq., F.R.S. 



Mr. Whitfield last year brought with him from the Gambia, along 

 with other most interesting mammalia and birds, some horns of a 

 very large species of Antelope, called by the natives Gingi-ganga, 

 which very nearly resemble those of the Eland from South Africa, 

 but are larger, longer and much heavier than those of the large 

 male Eland from South Africa, which the Earl of Derby presented 

 to the British Museum on the return of Mr. Burke. 



This season Mr. Whitfield succeeded in procuring the upper part 

 of the skull and horns of a male, and the flat skin (but unfortunately 

 without head or feet) of an adult male and female of this animal, which 

 proves to be perfectly distinct from the Cape species ;. and as it is 

 by far the finest Antelope known, I propose to dedicate it to the 

 Earl of Derby, who has done so much to illustrate the species of this 

 group, and has been so successful in importing and breeding the 

 various kinds. 



This species is distinguished from the Cape Eland by the neck and 

 front part of the underside, and a large spot on the front and hinder 

 side of the upper part of the fore-legs (and the fetlock) as well as 

 the dorsal line being black, and by the side being ornamented with 

 fourteen or fifteen narrow, rather waved, perpendicular white lines, 

 and the lower part of the neck nearly surrounded with a broad white 

 half- collar which narrows above. 



The species may be thus described : — 



Boselaphus Derbianus. The Black-necked Eland or Gingi-ganga. 



Pale reddish brown ; neck, front part of the underside, the dorsal 

 line, a spot on the front and hinder part of the upper part of the 

 fore-leg (" and fetlock") black ; broad half-collar on lower part of 

 the neck, and fourteen or fifteen narrow perpendicular lines on each 

 side of the body white ; belly and front and hinder side of thighs 

 whitish ; crown reddish brown ; withers variegated with black hairs. 



Female ? Neck blackish brown ; rest like male. 



Inhab. Western Africa, Gambia. 

 September 3, 1847. 



NEW ORANG-OUTANG. 



The Rev. T. S. Savage, who has been resident several years at 

 Cape Palmas, Western Africa, informs me that he has obtained a 

 new species of Orang at the Gaboon River ; he has several crania and 

 portions of the skeleton. These, together with a notice of its habits, 

 will shortly appear in the ' Journal of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History.'— J. O. W. 



Preparing for Publication. 

 A Popular Introduction to the Study and Classification of Spiders and 

 Mites. By Adam White, F.L.S. 

 The author, during the last eight years, has been accumulating 

 notes on the above subject from books, manuscripts and personal ob- 

 servation. Spiders, "from the cradle to the grave," are paradoxical 



