OEYGIN.E 125 



Type apparently in collection of describer. 



Distinguished from typical race by deeper and redder 

 general colour, and the presence of a reddish or brownish 

 wash on limbs. The hoofs are also stated to be larger, and 

 there may be a slight difference in the horns. 



No specimen in the collection. 



C. — Oryx beisa annectens. 



Ovyx annectens, HoUister, Smithsoyi. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 2, 

 p. 7, 1910. 



Oryx beisa annectens, Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 293, 

 1910 ; Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 487, 1910 ; LijdeJcJcer, 

 Game Animals of Africa, Suppl. p. 14, 1911 ; Lonnberg, K. 

 Svensha Vet.-Ak. Handl. vol. xlviii, no. 5, p. 173, 1912. 



Typical locality Laikipia Plateau, B. E. Africa. 



Type in U.S. National Museum. 



Distinguished from typical race by the narrower dark 

 flank-stripe and the approximation of the head-markings to 

 those of the next race, as well as by the larger upper molars ; 

 skull small and narrow in front of orbits, with the tips of the 

 premaxilhe truncated. 



10. 1. 13. 2. Head-skin, provisionally identified with 

 this race. Kedong Valley, B. E. Africa. 



Presented hj Major G. E. Tuson, 1910. 



D.— Oryx beisa callotis. 



Oryx beisa. Hunter, Willoitghby's Big Game of E. Africa, p. 289. 



Oryx callotis, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 195, pi. xv ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, p. 149, 1892; True, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 vol. xv, p. 470, pi. Ixxxvi, 1892 ; L7jdekker, Horns and Hoofs, 

 p. 248, 1893, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 382, 1908 ; 

 Lugard, E. Africa, vol. i, p. 534, 1893 ; Matscliie, Sitzher. 

 Ges. nat. Freunde, 1893, p. 103, Sdugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, 

 p. 135, 1895; JacTison, Big Game Shooting {Badminton Libr.), 

 vol. i, p. 293, 1894, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 454 ; Pousargues, 

 Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 131, 1896 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 73, 1899 ; 0. Neumann, 

 Sitzher. Ges. nai. Freunde, 1900, p. 561, 1902, p. 100; HoUister^ 

 Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 2, p. 8, 1910. 



Oryx beisa callotis, Lydehker, Game Animals of Africa, p. 285, 1908 ; 

 Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 293, 1910, ed. 7, p. 293, 

 1914. 



Typical locality Kilimanjaro district, German East Africa. 

 General colour richer and ruddier than in the typical beisa ;. 



