160 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Abyssinia, in tlie collection of Major Powell-Cotton, stated 

 to differ from the female of typical dccida by the presence 

 of white hairs in the dorsal crest, which is blackish brown 

 instead of chestnut-brown, by the ochery general colour, and 

 the absence of white longitudinal bands. 



61, a. Skull, with horns, and skin, immature. 

 Abyssinia ; collected by Dr. Eiippell. Purchased. 



74. 11. 2. 7. Skin, mounted, and skull. Salam tributary 

 of the Upper Atbara Valley, Abyssinia. 



Purchased {Gerrard), 1874. 



74. 11. 2. 8. Skin, mounted, and skull, female. Same 

 locality. Bainc history. 



76. 9. 26. 8. Skeleton, with horns, mounted. Upper 

 Atbara Valley. Purchased {Gerrard), 1876. 



4. 9. 25. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin, young. Horoso 

 Valley, Abyssinia. 



Presented hij J. lloivland Ward, Esq., 1904. 



12. 11. 13. 1. Head, mounted. Binder Valley, 

 Abyssinia ; shot by Capt. M. E. T. Gunthorpe. 



Presented hy Col. S. J. Gunthorpe, 1912. 



G.—^Tragrelaphus scriptus meneliki. 



Tragelaphus meneliki, 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1902, 

 p. 93 ; Lbnnberg, Arkiv Zool. vol. ii, no. 15, p. 6, 1905 ; 

 Matsciiie, Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1912, p. 545. 



Tragelaphus scriptus meneliki, LydeJcker, Great and Small Game of 

 Africa, p. 325, 1908, Sii2:>]3l. p. 16, 1911. 



Typical locality Gara Mulatta, Burka, and Jaffa Eanges, 

 on upper Webi Shebeli watershed, Arusi Gallaland. 



Type in collection of Dr. 0. Neumann. 



Size large, shoulder-height about 29^ inches ; coat long; 

 neck fully haired; dorsal crest black, with a few white hairs 

 posteriorly ; general colour ranging from blackish rufous 

 grey (like that of sijlvaticus, infra, p. 162) to deep shining 

 black ; no white markings on body with the occasional 

 exception of two or three flecks on haunches ; an imperfect 

 white chevron between eyes ; white markings on fore-legs 

 much the same as in multicolor {infra, p. 177), but the spots 

 above hoofs smaller and less distinct. Female light brownish 



