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{sylvaticus), but with rather more pronounced white markings 

 in immature individuals ; these almost or completely dis- 

 appearing in adults, of which the general colour is nearly 

 black or brownish grey. Females (like immature males) 

 redder, usually with faintly marked stripes and spots. 



How far north this race extends is not yet ascertained. 



52. 9. 22. 2. Skull, with horns. Limpopo Valley. May 

 be regarded as the type ; figured in The Book of Antelopes, 

 vol. iv, tigs. 100 and 101, pp. 126 and 127. 



Presented ly Roualcyn Gordon-Cumming, Esq., 1852. 



Z^— Tragelaphus scriptus sylvaticus. 



Antilope sylvatica, Sparrman, Act. Holm. 1780, p. 197, -pi. vii, Beise 

 Cap. p. 517, pi. iii, 1784, English Transl. {Voyage to Cape of 

 Good Hope, etc.) vol. i, p. 270, vol. ii, p. 220, pi. vi, 1786, French 

 Transl. vol. i, p. 293, pi. iii ; Schreber, Sditgthierc, pi. cclvii, 

 B., 1784; Boddaert, Elenchus Anim. p. 141, 1785; Gmelin, 

 Li7i7i.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 192, 1788 ; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. 

 Kingdom, p. 318, 1792 ; Donndorff, Zool, Beytrdge, p. 643, 1792 ; 

 LinTc, Beytrdge Naturgeschichte, vol. ii, p. 99, 1795 ; Shaiv, Gen, 

 Zool. vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 348, 1801 ; Turton, Li7in.'s Syst. Nat. vol. i, 

 p. 115, 1802; Cuvier, Diet. Sci. Nat. vol. ii, p. 246, 1804; 

 Thtmberg, Mem. Ac. Sci. St. Petersh. vol. iii, p. 315, 1811 ; 

 Lichtenstein, Beise, vol. i, p. 647, 1811 ; G. Fischer, Zoognosia, 

 vol. iii, p. 441, 1914 ; Afzelius, Nova Acta Soc. Upsal. vol. vii, 

 p. 220, 1815 ; BurcheU, List Quadr. presented to Brit. Mtis. p. 7, 

 1817 ; Goldfuss, Schreber' s Sdtigthiere, vol. v, p. 1209, 1818 ; 

 Schinz, Cuvier'' s Thierreich, vol. i, p. 396, 1821, Synop. Mamm. 

 vol. ii, p. 428, 1845, Mon. Antilop. p. 27, pi. xxix, 1848; 

 Desmoulins, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. vol. i, p. 447, 1822 ; 

 H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 275, vol. v, 

 p. 350, 1827;* J. B. Fischer, Synop. Mamm. p. 472, 1829; 

 Smuts, Enum. Mamm. Cap. p. 87, 1832 ; Oiven, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 1836, p. 38, Anat. Vertebrates, vol. iii, p. 364, 1868 ; Waterhouse, 

 Cat. Mamm. Mus. Zool. Soc. p. 42, 1838; Huet, Bull. Soc. 

 Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 480, 1887, 



Antilope (Gazella) sylvatica, Lichtenstein, Mag. Nat. Freunde, vol. vi, 

 p. 173, 1814. 



Cernas sylvatica, Oken, Lehrbuch Naturgeschichte, vol. iii, pt. 2, 

 p. 733, 1816. 



Tragelaphus sylvaticus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75 ; 

 Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. ii, p. 197, 1816 ; Harris, 

 Wild Anim. S. Africa, pp. 144 and 149, pi. xxvi, 1840 ; Gervais, 

 Diet. Sci. Nat., Suppjl. vol. i, p. 266, 1840 ; Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. 

 Begne Anim., Mamm. p. 181, 1842 ; Graij, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 165, 1843, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. pp. 59, 60, and 146, 1847, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 145, Kiioivsley Menagerie, p. 28, 1850, 

 Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 139, 1852, Cat. Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 50, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 120, 1873, 



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