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stripes distinct ; longitudinal bands more developed, and 

 spots on haunches more numerous and rather smaller than 

 in the so-called p^cnctatus. 



Appears to bear much the same relation to hor as is 

 presented hy punctatus [= signatus] to pict us (Schwarz). 



No specimen in the collection can be definitely identified 

 with this form. 



P.— Tragelaphus scriptus cottoni. 



Tragelaphus cottoni, Mafschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1912, 

 p. 552. 



Including : — 

 Tragelaphus cottoni meridionalis, Matschie, op. cit. p. 555, 1912. 

 Tragelaphus cottoni dodingae, Matschie, op. cit. p. 556, 1912. 



Typical locality Parajala, westward of Lado, on the Koda, 

 a tributary of the Bahr-el-Jebel. The typical locality of 

 meridionalis is about 40 miles north of Wadelai, Uganda ; 

 and that of dodingcc the Kedef Valley, on the western flank 

 of the Dodinga Eange, east-north-east of Dufile, and 

 therefore to the east of the White Nile, whereas the other 

 two forms are from the west of the same. Types in 

 collection of Major Powell-Cotton at Quex. 



Typically a small short-haired race, with a short-haired 

 neck-collar, and a black dorsal crest mingled with white 

 hairs ; general colour brownish ochre, with a gi-eyish 

 suffusion ; a white longitudinal band broken up into spots, 

 and, it is stated, nine white transverse stripes,* numerous 

 white spots on haunches, and a white mark on neck ; under- 

 parts black, grey in female. 



The more southern specimens described as meridionalis 

 are stated to be rather larger, with certain slight differences 

 in general colour, and having only three distinct white trans- 

 verse stripes and a fourth represented by spots, eight to 

 ten spots on haunches, two spots on the shoulder near the 

 end of the longitudinal band, and the tail-tip mingled black 

 and brown instead of wholly black. 



The bushbuck described as T. c. dodingce is stated to be 



* In the type I could detect only five distinct stripes on one feide 

 and four on the other. 



