3. EUEYCEROS. 49 



Hah. South Africa : Port Natal (Angas). 



Male blackish, with a white dorsal crest and five white streaks 

 across the sides. Spot ou face, chest, legs, and end of tail white. 

 Female and young bright bay, with numerous white stripes across 

 the body. (P. Z. S. 1848, t. 4 and 5.) 



SkuU, adult : length 13 inches; width at back of orbit 5^ inches; 

 nose to front of orbit 7| inches ; length of horns along the curve 

 26 inches. 



** Hoofs elo7igate, narrow. Fur one colour in both sexes. Hydrotragus. 



//^£-Cfl./.^cc,' 3, Euryceros Spekii. (The Nakong.) B.M, 



Dull bay, nearly of one colour ; the dorsal streak paler, incon- 

 spicuous ; inside the ears, spot on each side of nose, under the eyes 

 and chin whitish. Tail elongate, nearly cylindrical, above brown, 

 beneath white. Hoofs elongate, strong. Horns very like those of 

 T. euryceros, but longer, more slender, black, with white tips. 



Antilope eiuryceros, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 88. 



Tragelaphus eurycerus, var. 1, Gray, Cat. Ungul. B. M. p. 137. 

 Tragelaphus Spekii, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1864, p. '103 (fiff., p. 104, horns 

 and feet), t. 12 ; Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 650. 



Hab. Kohhi {Allen), Central Africa; Karagweh {Spehe). 



The fur is very long and coarse, as in T. Amjasii, of a mouse-co- 

 lour. Front of head reddish ; narrow dorsal streak paler,with some 

 whitish hairs ; tail darker, underside and terminal tuft white. 



I have little doubt that this animal was first noticed by Capt. 

 Wilham Allen, E.jS". He says it is " 3 feet high, or rather more, of 

 a darkish brown colour ; but I do not remember any white band 

 across the forehead ; and the horns are said to be like A. euryceros, 

 from Kohhi, on the Cameroon Eiver, in the Bight of Biafra.'' 

 (P. Z. S. 1848, p. 88.) The horns are in the British Museum, and 

 evidently belong to this species. {T. eurycerus, var. 1, Gray Cat 

 Ungul. B. M. p. 136 ; Cat. Bones Mamm. p. 246.) 



A pair of horns and a separate one, purchased of M. Parzudaki, 

 from the Gaboon, ajDpear to belong to this species. The separate 

 horn is pecuhar from having a black tip. 



A skin of a young specimen with small horns, and a pair of 

 long horns from Guami, received from Capt. Speke, 1863. Tips 

 whitish. 



A small pair of horns, received from J. A. Green, Esq., in 1856, 

 from Guami. as T. AnyasH. (Cat. Bones Mamm. p. 246.) 



Mr._ Layard informs me that the skin of a male specimen in bad 

 state in the British Museum was brought from the Zambesi by E. 

 Chapman, Esq., and given to Mr. Layard, who sent it to Mr. Edward 

 Verreaux, who, in February 1860, sold it to the Museum as " Atifi- 

 lopus roualeynri. The Bush-buck of Lirapupu (Gordon CinnlmA 

 South Africa." Fur long, soft, of a nearly uniform pale brown 

 colour, with a white streak on the side of the eye ; chin whitish. 



y ar. fxxrit. Blackish brown, //ali. (Jaboon. B.M. 



