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Y.— Tragfelaphus scriptus meruensis. 



Tragelaphus sylvaticus meruensis, Lonnherg, Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro- 

 Meru-Exped. p. 48, 1908; Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1912, p. 544. 



Tragelaphus scriptus meruensis, LydeliJcer, Game Animals of Africa, 

 Suppl. p. 16, 1911. 



Typical locality Meru Plateau, west of Kilimanjaro, 

 German East Africa. 



Type in Eoyal Swedish Museum of Natural History, 

 Stockholm. 



Allied to masaicus, from which it differs by the absence 

 of white body-stripes and of a white stripe below eye, 

 although the two cheek-spots persist. General colour dark 

 reddish brown, passing into smoky brown on shoulders and 

 sides of chest ; under-parts smoky brownish grey. 



92. 10. 18. 14. Skull, female, probably belonging to this 

 form (if distinct). Kilimanjaro ; collected by Sir F. J. 

 Jackson, K.C.M.G., C.B. 



Presented hi/ J. Roivland Ward, Esq., 1892. 



Z. — Trag"elaphus scriptus ornatus. 



Tragelaphus scriptus ornatus, PococJc, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, 

 vol. V, p. 94, 1900 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, 

 vol. iv, p. 110, 1900; Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 807; 

 Lonnherg, ArMv Zool. vol. ii, no. 15, p. 6, 1905 ; Lydekker, Game 

 Animals of Africa, p. 325, 1908. 



Tragelaphus ornatus, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1912, 

 p. 644. 



Typical locality Linyanti, in the swamps of the Chobi, 

 between Lake Ngami and the Zambesi. 



Shoulder-height about 28 inches ; neck with a short- 

 haired collar; dorsal crest white; general colour rich dark 

 rufous, passing in places into black ; upper longitudinal white 

 band wanting, about six to eight transverse white stripes, 

 and a number of spots on haunches ; outer sides of legs 

 blackish above knees and hocks, reddish below, inner sides 

 white close up to body ; a broad black band above knees and 

 hocks ; back and inner sides of knees and fronts and inner 

 sides of hocks white, whence a white stripe extends along 

 inner and front edges of shanks to the pasterns, which are 



