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coloration and fully developed white markings may persist 

 throughout life. 



That an excessive numl)er of local races of the species — 

 especially in Abyssinia and East Africa — have received 

 names, seems practically certain ; but the material in the 

 collection is quite insufficient to admit of a critical revision 

 in this respect. All that it has been practicable to do is, 

 after the elimination of types, to arrange the specimens 

 under the heading of the race to the typical locality of which 

 they come nearest in point of origin. 



The greater number of the named races have been 

 allowed to stand provisionally, although in a few instances 

 so-called subspecies have been included under the heading 

 of forms to which specific rank has been accorded by some 

 writers. 



The explanation — offered in vol. ii. in the case of the 

 w^aterbucks— that many of the so-called subspecies have been 

 named on the evidence of individual herds rather than on 

 true local races will not hold good in the present instance, 

 seeing that bushbucks go about in pairs instead of associating 

 in herds. 



For tlie most part, the races are arranged geographically. 



A. — Trag-elaphus scriptus scriptus. 



Tragelaphus scriptus typicus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 388 ; 

 Bryden, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 480, 1899; Sclater 

 and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 109, 1900 ; W. L. 

 Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 231, 1900 ; LydeMer, 

 Game Animals of Africa, p. 325, 1908; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, ed. 6, p. 307, 1910, ed. 7, p. 305, 1914; Letcher, Big 

 Game N. E. Rhodesia, p. 172, 1911. 



Tragelaphus scriptus scriptus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 807 ; 

 Pocock, ibid. 1910, p. 930; Schwarz, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 ser. 8, vol. xiii, p. 41, 1914. 



GuiB. 



Typical locality Senegal. 



Shoulder-height about 28 inches ; neck with a nearly 

 bare collar ; dorsal crest white ; general colour rich dark 

 rufous, distinctly marked with about ten transverse white 

 stripes, an upper and a lower longitudinal white band, and a 

 circle of white spots on haunches ; a marked tendency to 



