146 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



C— Hippotrag-us niger roosevelti. 



Ozanna roosevelti, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. liv, pt. 6, p. 1, 

 1910; Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 486, 1910. 



Hippotragus niger roosevelti. Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 

 p. 284, 1910, ed. 7, p. 283, 1914. 



Typical locality Shimba Hills, B. E. Africa. 



Type in U.S. National Museum. 



General colour of female lighter than in typical race, 

 being mainly light chestnut, and the face-markings huffish 

 yellow instead of white. The maximum recorded horn- 

 length is 37 inches. 



10. 4. 20. 5. Head, mounted (fig. 23). B. E. Africa. 

 Length of horns 35, girth 8^, tip-to-tip interval 6^ inches. 



Presented hy G. D. Muir, Esq., 1910. 



III. Genus ADD AX. 



KdiA&x, Rafinesque,* Analyse de la iVa^i^re, p. 56, 1815 ; Gray, Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. i, vol. xviii, p. 232, 1846 ; Sclater and Thomas, 

 Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 77, 1899 ; Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1910, p. 910. 



Size and general characters very similar to those of Ori/x, 

 but horns twisted into a heteronymous corkscrew-like spiral, 

 and the hoofs low, flat, elongated posteriorly, and broad in 

 front ; patches of long hairs below the eyes, probably 

 corresponding to the glandular eye-tufts of ITippotrafjus ; 

 a tuft on forehead and short mane on sides of neck ; hairs 

 of mid-dorsal line not reversed, except occasionally on neck ; 

 tail-tuft relatively small. 



The range includes the desert tracts of northern Africa 

 as far south as Senegal on the west and Dongola on the east. 



ADDAX NASOMACULATUS. 



Cerophorus (Gazella) nasomaculata, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 1816, pp. 75 and 76. 



Antilope uaso-maculata, Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. ed. 2,. 

 vol. ii, p. 188, 1816, Mammalogie, vol, ii, p. 456, 1822; Blain- 

 ville, Oken's Isis, 1819, p. 1095, pi. xii, figs. 4-7, Journ. Phys. 

 1819. pi. figs. 4-7 ; Goldfuss, Sclireher's Sdugtliiere, vol. v, 

 p. 1242, 1824; Lichtenstein, Abh. Ak. Berlin, 1824, p. 215; 

 Lesson, Man. Mamni. p. 374, 1827 ; J. B. Fischer, Synop. Mamm^ 



* No species-name given. 



