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pt. ii, p. 156, 1891, Fauna S.Africa, Mamm. \ol. i, p. 217, 1900 ; 

 Flower and Li/dehkcr, Study of Mammals, p. 343, 1891 ; Nicolls 

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 p. 397, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 295, 1908 ; Lorenz, Ann. 

 Hofmus. Wien, vol. ix, Notizcn, p. 62, 1894 ; Bendall, Proc. Zool. 

 So'c. 1895, p. 362 ; Millais, A Breath from the Veldt, p. 127, 1896 ; 

 Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 181, 1896, ed. 6, p. 286, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 285, 1914 ; Kirhy, Haunts of Wild Game, p. 548, 1896 ; 

 Johnston, British Central Africa, p. 318, 1897 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 13, pis. Ixxvii and Ixxviii, 

 1899 ; Selous, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 406, 1899 ; 

 Bothscliild, Powell-Cotton s Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, 

 p. 475, 1902 ; Benshaw, Nat. Hist. Essays, p. 60, 1904 ; Alexander, 

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 p. 910 ; Letcher, Big Game N. E. Bhodesia, p. 210, 1911 ; 

 Boherts, Ann. Transvaal Mus. vol. iv, p. 106, 1918. 



Hippotragus leucophseus, Brehm, Thierlehen, Sdugeth. vol. iii, p. 226, 

 1880; Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 755, A Hunter's W-an- 

 derings in S. Africa, p. 213, 1881 ; Floiver and Garson, Cat, 

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 Lishoa, ser. 2, vol. ii, p. 26, 1890 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, 

 p. 140, 1892 ; nee Antilope leucophaea, Pallas. 



Egocerus equinus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 464 ; 

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Ozanna equina, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. {Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. viii) p. 82, 1907. 



Roan Antelope, or Bastard Gemsbok. 



Typical locality South Africa north of the Orange Eiver. 



Size very large, the shoulder-height in some cases being 

 from about 56 to 60 inches, or even more. Horns stout, 

 comparatively short, and cylindrical ; general colour greyish 

 or sandy roan ; forehead and sides of face black (with or 

 without a patch of chestnut at base of horns) ; a prominent 

 patch below eyes — in the lower half of which the hairs are 

 elongated into a tuft — and a less conspicuous one behind 

 eyes,* together with muzzle, lips, and under-parts, white ; ears 

 long, narrow, and pointed, with black pencils of hair at tips ; 

 a brown mane, directed mainly backwards, but showing a 

 tendency to be whorled at withers, and a long throat-fringe ; 

 limbs brownish fawn, occasionally with black patches on 

 shoulders and upper part of fore-legs ; tail reaching nearly to 

 hocks, with black tuft. Average basal length of skull about 

 16 inches, maximum breadth 6|, interval between muzzle 



* Very frequently this patch is not surrounded by black, but in 

 contact posteriorly with the general body-colour. 



