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57. 4. 28. 77. Skin, mounted. Same locality and 

 collector. Sayne history. 



50. 8. 22-23. Two pairs of horns. South Africa. 



Purchased {Argent), 1850. 

 59. 8. 17. 1. Skull, with horns. South Africa. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1859. 

 89. 2. 4. 4. Frontlet and horns, immature. Swaziland. 

 Presented by Morton Green, Esq., 1889. 



B.— .ffipyceros melampus johnstoni. 



.^pyceros melampus johnstoni, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 553 ; 



Lonnberg, Bev. ZooJ. Africaine, vol. iii, p. 273, 1913. 

 (?) jEpyceros melampus holubi, Lorenz, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. ix, 



Notizen, p. 62, 1894 ; Lonnberg, Bev. Zool. Africaine, vol. iii, 



p. 278, 1913. 



Distinguished from typical race by the shorter horns and 

 more slender skull. Lonnberg, op. cit., considers that holubi, 

 from the district north of the Zambesi, is probably insepar- 

 able from this race. 



Typical locality Nyasaland. 



In The Book of Antelopes Sclater and Thomas came to the 

 conclusion that the Nyasa pala was inseparable from the 

 typical race of the species, but it seems entitled to rank as a 

 distinguishable form. The length of the horns of the type 

 specimen, measured in a straight line is 13| inches ; basi- 

 cranial length about 10^^ inches (255 mm.). 



92. 8. 1. 64. Head, mounted, body -skin, and skull. 

 Zomba, Nyasaland; collected by A. Whyte, Esq. Type. 



Presented hy Sir H. H. Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 1892. 



92. 8. 1. 65. Skull, with horns, and skin. Same locality 

 and collector. Same history. 



93. 7. 9. 23-24. Two skulls, with horns. Shire 

 Highlands. Same donor, 1893. 



97. 10. 1. 294. Skin, female. Zomba; collected by 

 Mr. Carson. Same donor, 1897. 



93. 7. 25. 3. Skull, with horns, and skin, provisionally 

 referred to this race. Lake Mweru, N. W. Rhodesia ; 

 collected by E. Crawshay, Esq. Letcher writes that the 

 Ehodesian pala carries much smaller horns than its 



