E. LÖNNBERG, ON THE HARNESSED ANTELOPES. 5 



upper longitudinal stripe, but two males provided with such. 

 If not other more important characteristics are added, it 

 seems therefore difficult, for the present, to make a clear di- 

 stinction between scriptus and phaleratns, altliough it may be 

 possible that they each represent a geographical race. 



The differences between knutsoni and the typical scrip- 

 tiis have already been mentioned. Through its well-haired 

 neck and the black dorsal crest, the former resembles the 

 Bushbuck ot the Upper Nile, Tragelaphus hor of Heuglin^ 

 but differs from the same through its general colour which 

 in T. hor is påle brownish^ with fewer vertical stripes 3 — 5. 

 The subspecies from the Cameroon Mountain seems also to 

 have a longer skull, but perhaps shorter horns. The females 

 of T. s. hor and T. s. knutsoni seem, however, to be more 

 similar both having a great number of vertical stripes, but 

 the former has the back »fuscous brown in unusual contrast 

 to the rufous sides»^ and anything like that is not seen in 

 T. s. knutsoni. T. s. jasciatus Pocock- from the Somaliland 

 differs from the new subspecies in having the neck short 

 haired, a smaller number (4 — o) of vertical stripes, no upper 

 longitudinal band, and a reddish yellow general colour. The more 

 Southern T. s. ornatus Pocock from the valley of the Chobe 

 and Upper Zambesi has a white dorsal crest, (whether the 

 dorsal crest of T. s. jasciatus is white, is not mentioned in 

 the description, but this is probably the case) and the female 

 of the same has »only three or four faint white stripes». The 

 upper longitudinal band is entirely absent in both sexes. In 

 Tragelaphus roualeynei Cumming and masaicus O. NeumanN'^ 

 even the low^er longitudinal band is missing. These two, only 

 transversally striped Bushbucks seem to form a group by 

 themselves with more eastern distribution from Limpopo 

 River through German and British East Africa. Tlie stripes 

 become more conspicuous towards the north, but tend to 

 disappear towards the south and thus a natural transition 

 is effected to the South African T. sylvaticiis (Sparrman), 

 wliich has no :stripes at all. All of these have the dorsal 

 crest white and have the neck more or less short-haired. 

 From the country north and east of Victoria Nyanza O. Neu- 

 MANN has described a white-crested Tragelap>hus, named by 



' O. Thomas P. Z. S. 1900. p. 806—807. 



- Ann. k Mag. Ser. 7. Vul. 5, p. 95. 



'^ Sitz. ber. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin 1902, p. m. 



