EAST AFRICAN MAMMALS IN NATIONAL MUSEUM. 129 
The supposed type-specimen, in the Berlin Museum, is described in 
Heller’s manuscript notes as follows: 
Tragelaphus dama Neumann. Skin, g, A 5587. Kavirondo, O. Neumann. Flat 
skin without legs or head (cut in front of collar). Color buffy ochraceous; row of spots 
on sides and a cluster on flanks; three spots above fore legs also. No skull; native 
skin only. 
TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS SASS Matschie. 
1912. Tragelaphus dianae sassae Matscut®, Sitz.-ber Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, 
p. 561. December. (Sassa, Lake Albert Edward, Belgian Congo; type 
in Powell-Cotton collection, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent, England.) 
Specimens.—Six, as follows: 
German East Arrica: Nyanza, east shore of Lake Tanganyika, 
6 (Raven). 
These specimens are provisionally referred to Tragelaphus scriptus 
sass, no specimens from the type locality being available for com- 
parison. They certainly can not be referred to 7. s. dama because 
of their darker color and the presence of indistinct transverse stripes 
on the sides of the old males, while the single female is conspicuously 
less marked than females of dama or of massaicus. The oldest males 
are not nearly so dark as males of T. s. delamerei of comparable age; 
and are somewhat darker than specimens of T. s. massaicus. The 
series includes four adult males, one young male, and one adult 
female. There is great variation among the skins of males, no two 
being alike. Some show a distinct row of white spots along the 
flanks and a group of such markings on the hind quarters. Five or 
six light transverse stripes are faintly indicated in some, and the 
dorsal crest is usually whitish over the posterior two-thirds of its 
length. The female skin is much more reddish than any of the males. 
Genus LIMNOTRAGUS Sclater and Thomas. 
1872. Hydrotragus Gray, Cat. Rum. Mamm. British Mus., p. 49. (L. spekii; not 
of Fitzinger, 1866.) 
1900. Limnotragus ScLaTER AND THomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. 4, p. 90. (L. 
spekii.) 
Only a single specimen of the rare sitatunga is contained in the 
East African collections. 
LIMNOTRAGUS SPEKII (Sclater). 
1863. Tragelaphus spekii SctaTER, in Speke’s Journ. of Discovery of Source of 
the Nile, p. 223. (Karague, west of Victoria Nyanza, German East 
Africa; type in British Museum.) 
1910. Limnotragus spekii Roosevett, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 475; 
London ed., p. 486. 
1914. Limnotragus spekei Roosevett AND Hetwer, Life-Hist. African Game 
Anim., vol. 2, p. 440. 
