2 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BA?^D 2. N:0 15. 



the hairs there are rather Avidely tipped with black. Head 

 and face just as red, with a broad black band extending from 

 between the eyes to the muzzle. Upper lip with a yellow 

 stripe along the margin, chin and inter-ramal area light red- 

 dish yellow. A roundish white spöt below the posterior cor- 

 ner of the eye. No spöt in front of the eye only a few scatte- 

 red white hair, and the one found in the typical scriptus right 

 below the eye, is in this animal confluent Avith the light inter- 

 ramal area and not white but yellow. Ears blackish with 

 red hairs of the general colour on the outside, reddisli 

 yellow on the inside. Neck of the general colour, and with 

 hairs almost as long as on the body; a yellowish patch on 

 the upper, and a yellowish white transverse band on the 

 lower throat, the area between them hardly being lighter than 

 elsewhere. On the sides of the body there are traces of 

 about eight transverse stripes, all of them being rather faint, 

 and some of the anterior ones so short as to form only spöts. 

 In front of them, the upper longitudinal stripe is indicated 

 by two small spöts. Two white spöts on the shoulders. The 

 lower longitudinal stripe is continuous and well developed. 

 x\bout a dozen white spöts on the haunches but some of them 

 are very small and ill defined. Dorsal crest extending from 

 the anterior part of the neck to the root of the tail. entirely 

 black and well developed all along. Tail bushy, red above, 

 white on the sides and with black tip. Belly and chest black. 

 Före legs blackish in front, otherwise yellowish brown tending 

 to whitish yelloAV on either side of the knees, and Avith the 

 inside close to the body white. A yellowish Avhite spöt in 

 front, just above the hoofs, surrounded by blackish. Hind 

 legs with a similar spöt at the hoofs, and above that a short 

 blackish stripe, elscAvhere red Avith a white band extending 

 from the groin doAvnwards on the leg but becoming yelloAvish 

 in its distal part and disappearing before it reaches the short 

 black band mentioned above. Just below the groin this AAhite 

 band is skirted by blackish on the inside of the leg. 



Basicranial length 218 mm. Length of horns 245 mm. 

 Basal diameter of the same 45—50 mm. According to a com- 

 munication from Mr. G. Waldau, this buck measured, Avhen it 

 had been just killed, 123 cm. in length from the snout to the root 

 of the tail; height at the Avithers 83 cm. and at the hind quar- 

 ters 88 cm. It seems therefore as if this subspecies AA^as larger 



