ARKIV FÖK ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 2. N:o 15. 



On the Harnessed Antelopes of the Camerooii 



Territory with some remarks on their 



colour and habits. 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



Comnninic3ted Mai^ch 8 1905. 



When reviewing the skins of Tragelwphus from the Came- 

 roon Territory in the Swedish Museum of Natural History 

 I ha ve arrived a t the conclusion that the Harnessed Ante- 

 lopes are represented by two different races or subspecies in 

 the territory just mentioned. 



One of these seems to Ii ve on the Cameroon Mountain, 

 and the other at the foot of the same. At least the first of 

 these has not been hitherto described, and I take therefore 

 the pleasure of naming it after one of the donors and collectors 

 Mr. K. Knutson, who together with Mr. G. Waldau were 

 among the first explorers of the Cameroon Mountain and its 

 interesting natural conditions. 



Tragelaphus scriptus knutsoni n. subsp. is represented in 

 the collection by skin and skull of an old male, skins of two 

 young males, and skins of three females. In its general colou- 

 ration this subspecies agrees pretty well with the typical 

 ■scriptus, hut is -at once distinguished from the same by its 

 well-haired neck, by the dorsal crest being entirely black in 

 the male, and also developed in the female, greater length of 

 the fur, and different colour of the legs etc. 



The description of the aduli inale is as follows: General 

 colour a rich dark red, becoming darker towards the back as 



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