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cheeks, front of upper lip and chin white ; forehead and feet bay ; 

 throat with a mane of long rigid blackish hair ; horns rather slender, 

 elongate, rather bent forward at the tip ; female bay, with many white 

 bands. 



Tragelaphus Angasii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1848, 89. t. 4 & 5, male, fe- 

 male and young ; Knows. Menag. 27. 



Inhabits S. Africa ; Port Natal. Brit. Mus. male, imperfect skin. 



** Face without any frontal streak; horns small, 

 f Back with transverse white stripes. 



3. Tragelaphus scriptus. The Zalofes or Harness Ante- 

 lope. 



Pale bay ; back with four cross-bands and a central white streak ; 

 haunches white spotted ; cheek with two white spots ; spot on chest, 

 nose, feet, and spots on the legs blackish ; dorsal streak and end of 

 tail black. Adult : chest and outside of shoulder and haunches and 

 legs black : the male with a high ridge of long, coarse white hair ex- 

 tending the whole length of the back to the tail. 



Antilope scripta, Pallas, Misc. 8. — Antilope {Tragelaphus) scripta, 

 H. Smith. — A. maculata, Thunb. — A. (Tragelaphus) Phalerata, 

 H. Smith. — Tragelaphus scripta, Gray, Knows. Menag. 28. t. 28. — 

 The Harness Antelope, Pennant, Syn. 27 .—Guib, Buffon, H. N. xii. 

 305, 307. t. 40. t. 41. f. 1 ; F. Cuv. Mamm. Lithog. t. ; Diet. Scl 

 Nat. t. . 



Inhabits W. Africa ; Senegal and Gambia. Called Oualo/es or 

 Zalofes. 



The dark colour of the chest and outside of the limbs, and the 

 high crest of the male, are not developed until they are four or more 

 years old. 



This species varies in some having seven and others nine white 

 cross-bands, and some are spotted and others not ; but they breed 

 together, and the produce is often a different variety from the parent. 



They breed constantly at Knowsley : in May 1845 they had a small 

 herd of two males and four females, three of which were expected to 

 bear young. 



4. Tragelaphus Decula. The Decula. 



Grey brown ; back with three or four indistinct cross-bands ; an 

 arched streak on upper part of side, a few spots forming an arch on 

 the haunches ; dorsal line, streak on nose, and in front of fore-legs 

 blackish. 



Antilope Decula, Riippell, Abyss, t.4. — Tragelaphus Decula, Gray, 

 Knows. Menag. 28. 



Far. Back without the cross-bands. 



Inhabits Africa ; Abyssinia (Riippell) . 



ff Back without any cross-bands or lateral streak. 



5. Tragelaphus sylvaticus. The Bosch Boc. 



Blackish brown ; head pale brown ; back, across forehead, black ; 

 small spot on haunches, larger spot on insides of legs and on feet 



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