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black hairs ; general colour very dark, the nape being black, 

 the fore-quarters blackish brown, passing into dark reddish 

 brown on middle of back and with deeper rufous on rump, 

 and the flanks gradually darkening into the black under- 

 parts ; three inconspicuous whitish transverse stripes, and 

 a few white spots on haunches ; forehead and crown deep 

 rusty red ; cheeks tawny ochre ; nose nearly black, with an 

 incomplete white chevron in front of the eyes, and a pair of 

 white spots on each side behind and below them. 



5. 5. 16. 3. Skull, with horns, and skin (scalp separate). 

 Nyeri. Type. Presented hy C. W. Hayivood, Esq., 1905. 



Some of the East African specimens entered under other 

 headings may be referable to this race. 



U.— Tragrelaphus scriptus delamerei. 



Tragelaphus delamerei, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. v, 

 p. 95, 1900 ; Sclater and Thomas, Booh of Ajitelopes, vol. iv, 

 p. 129, 1900 ; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 806 ; Lonnberg, 

 ArTiiv Zool. vol. ii, no. 15, p. 6, 1905 ; Matschie, Sltzher. Ges. 

 nat. Freunde, 1912, p. 545. 



Tragelaphus scriptus delamerei, Lydekker, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 324, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 309, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 307, 1914; Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, 

 no. 13, p. 1, 1913. 



Tragelaphus tjsederi, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xxvi, 

 p. 148, 1909 ; Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1912, pp. 545 

 and 547. 



Tragelaphus scriptus tjiederi, Lydekker, Game Animals of Africa, 

 Suppl. p. 16, 1911. 



Typical locality Sayer Valley, N.W. of Mount Kenia, near 

 Gessima, British East Africa.* 



Described from an immature female specimen. Neck 

 with a short-haired collar ; dorsal crest (non-existent in 

 type) white; general colour dark yellowish brown, passing 

 into yellowish fawn on shoulders and lower half of hind- 

 quarters, and becoming paler on under-parts ; no white body- 

 markings ; head ruddy brown on forehead, with a blackish 

 band along muzzle, but no white stripe running inwards 

 from corner of eyes ; white throat and chest bands small, 

 the former nearly obsolete ; outer and inner sides of fore-legs 

 yellowish brown, with the front of the shanks to a little 



* In original description the locality was given as Somaliland. 



