4 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 2. N.O 15. 



upper longitudinal stripe is not strongly developed and some- 

 times only indicated by a single spöt, or quite missing on 

 one side. The number of vertical stripes is 6 8. Two or 

 three well developed Avhite spöts on the shoulders and somc 

 faint ones higher up. A dozen to twenty conspicuous spöts 

 on the hindquarters. On the före legs there is only a white 

 spöt on the inside of the black band and a white spöt above 

 the hoofs. On the hind legs the white stripe meets the short 

 black stripe above the white spöt at the hoofs, but does not 

 join the latter. The hairs of the tail is much shorter t han 

 in knutsoni. 



For comparison the following measurements of the hairs 

 in different parts of the two forms may be noted: 



scriptus ' knutsoni 



from the lowland 



Hairs of the neck 3 — 4 mm. 12 mm. 



» » » black dorsal stripe . 25 mm. 35-50 mm. 



>> » >> tail 45 — 55 mm. 85 — 90 mm. 



But, in addition to the difference in length of the hairs, 

 the fur of knutsoni is much denser and through this the diffe- 

 rence becomes still more conspicuous. 



I am, as alluded to above, uncertain, whether the Har- 

 nessed Antelope of the Cameroon lowland is identical witli 

 the typical scriptus or not, and I must leave the question 

 open for the present, till I have been able to obtain some 

 male specimens, too, from the same* locality. In the »Book 

 of Antelopes»^ the authors say about the typical scriptus: 

 »At the base of the neck there is a more or less well defined 

 collar of short hair passing inferiorly above the lower white 

 neck-band». But in the specimens from the Cameroons the 

 whole neck is short-haired. The fact that the upper longi- 

 tudinal stripe is only little developed and sometimes missing, 

 at least on one side of the animal. approaches the Harnessed 

 Antelope of the Cameroon lowland to the form which has 

 been called phateratus by Hamilton-Smith'-. The latter was 

 from Congo. Pousargue-^ has, not many years ago, descri- 

 bed a female Tragelaphus from French Congo without the 



^ Vol. TV, p. 111: ScLATER and Thomas. London 1890—1900. 

 - »Griffitlis Animal Kingdom» 1827. 



^ Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 9, T, 4. Zool. »Les MammJferes du Congo 

 Fran(,*ais.>> 



