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ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF ANTELOPES. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCH II.D. 



(Plate IV.) 



1. Cobus peuricei sp. nov. 

 (I'lato IV., tig. 1.) 



AT once distiugnishable from its allies, Cohus cllipniprijmniis, C. (h-frtssa* and 

 ('. iawf>wsi/s, hy its intensely blackish colour. The muz/.je is whitish, the 

 face black, interspersed with rufons hairs between the horns. The usual white strij)e 

 passes from in front and over the eye to the base of the horns. Ears outside rufons 

 brown, with blackish tips and edges, inside white. Sides of face, neck, and body deep 

 brownish black, jdcntifully interspersed with reddisii brown hairs, all of them being 

 white at base, which gives the animal a colonr that in a horse is called  blue-roan." 

 This latter colour is more conspicuous ou the belly, where the hairs are longer, but 

 ranch less on the legs and hind half of the back, which parts are almost nuiform 

 brownish black. Tail black above, wliite below. There is a large jiatch of white on 

 the upper throat. 



The hornless /<;/««/(; is similar in colonr, but the ears are less rufons and more 

 brown. 



Tlie horns are much shorter than those of its three allies, and stouter in ]iro- 

 jiorlion. Their rings are closer together than on the horns of ('. cllijisipri/mnu-.i 

 and C. dt'fass (, but in their thickness and depth come nearest to those of C. dqfassa. 

 Th<' sknll is mnch narrower behind the horns than in C. defassa, as is also the nasal. 



Front legs (in skin), 10 inches ; hind legs, 22 ; ears, 8i inches ; horns along the 

 curve iu three bulls, 10, 24i, and 28 inches. 



These new Waterbucks were shot by Mr. Penrice near a j)lace known as Bongo, 

 on the banks of the Kuvali River, about one hundred miles .south-east of Benguella 

 and about fifty miles from Caconda. Mr. Penrice writes in a letter to Mr. liowland 

 Ward: "These antelopes have no white mark over the rump, the only whitish 

 colour being on the belly. They are pretty numerous at the locality named above, 

 but they are not found nearer the coast. They have a strong smell, and 1 have often 

 smelt them before sighting them. The cows have no horns, and as a rule bulls 

 and cows arc found in separate troops. The flesh is good (o eat. The Boers call 

 them ' Kringhart,' the same name they give to the waterbnck iu the Transvaal." 



Type of male and fe/nale in my Museum at Tring. The plate represents the 

 head of the new species and liorns of C. i'//i/).i/jj>-i/mniis and C. dr/assa to show the 

 ])osition of the rings. 



The species is named in hnuour of its discoverer. 



• The name must be spelt dr/assA, and not defa<»\]», ns drfaua h ft u.itivc name, It is, lioiyeTCr, spelt 

 {lefmsus in sivcral book!!, niid .also on the plate, by mistake. 



