NO. 2 MAMMALS FROM BRITISH Ki'^ST AFRICA — HOLLISTER 9 



tainly seem that Lydekker^ was in error when he considered callotis 

 a subspecies of beisa. 



This antelope was first seen soon after leaving Laikipia Boma. 

 It was generally distributed over the Laikipia Plateau and was 

 fairly abundant. Reported as especially plentiful about forty or 

 fifty miles north of Mount Kenia. 



TRAGELAPHUS DAMA Neumann 



Complete skin of old buck. The tag was lost from this specimen, 

 but it was almost surely killed on the upper Nzoia River. It agrees 

 well with the description of T. dama, differing only in the lack of 

 numerous white spots along the sides of the body. As it is well 

 known that the white body spots on bushbucks tend to disappear 

 in males with old age, this specimen can well be called dama. This 

 skin has four faint body spots on each side, formed by only a few 

 white hairs each, and a yellowish-white streak in front of each eye. 

 These are about the only characters to distinguish it from the de- 

 scriptions of Tragclaphiis sylvaticus mernensis I.onnberg and Trage- 

 laphus tjadcri Allen, between which I can find no appreciable diflfer- 

 ence. It would hardly seem that both of these latter forms are 

 entitled to recognition. 



Mr. White tells that the Kikuyu natives explain the presence of 

 the peculiar short-haired collar in this group of bushbucks by a story 

 to the effect that the Cireat Spirit ties the animals up each night. 



BOOCERUS EURYCERUS ISAACI Thomas 



The collection contains two skins of the rare East African bongo. 

 They were purchased ^-om natives at Nairobi, and were supposedly 

 killed in the vicinity of the Mau Escarpment. The skins differ 

 greatly in color and are both quite unlike a mounted bongo in the 

 Museum, also from East Africa. 



No. 155435, skin of body, is of a bright, glossy hazel color, shad- 

 ing to dark chestnut and black on the shoulders and chest ; a faint 

 "black dorsal stripe from withers to rump ; twelve white vertical 

 stripes on each side, all but one pair practically meeting on the 

 dorsum ; white spots on legs very large. A mounted head in Mr. 

 White's private collection, presumably from this same individual, 

 and which I have had the pleasure of examining, has the face and 

 muzzle all around, from level of the eves to near the lips and chin, 



* The Game Animals of Africa, p. 285, 1908. 



