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1869; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 485, 1878, p. 884; Buch- 

 ley, ibid. 1876, p. 285 ; Thomas, ibid. 1891, p. 387, 1896, p. 798, 

 1897, p. 939; Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 347, 

 1891 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 98, 1893, p. 799 ; Lydekker, 

 Horns and Hoofs, p. 352, 1893, Game Aniinals of Africa, p. 331, 

 1908 ; Bendall, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 359, Novit. Zool. vol. v, 

 p. 212, 1898 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, 

 p. 81, 1897 ; Selous, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 455, 

 1899 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 137, 

 pi. xcii, 1900; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 930; Ward, 

 Eecords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 310, 1910, ed. 7, p. 308, 1914 ; 

 Letcher, Great Game N. E. Bhodesia, p. 186, 1911. 



Strepsiceros angasi. Turner, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 171 ; Boherts, 

 Ann. Transvaal Mus. vol. iv, p. 106, 1913. 



Euryceros angasi. Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 48, 1872, 

 Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 119, 1873. 



Nyala angasi. Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, no. 8, p. 16, 

 1912. 



Nyala, or Inyala. 



Type of Nyala. 



Typical locality St. Lucia Bay, Zululand. 



Size medium, shoulder-height about 42 inches; nuchal 

 and dorsal crest much longer than in preceding species, a 

 profuse fringe of hair on throat and under-parts, and tail 

 more bushy and longer; horns forming rather more than 

 one complete turn ; no white throat-band. General colour 

 slaty grey, with a tinge of yellowish rufous ; forehead rufous 

 and orbital region fawn ; upper lip and chin, two spots on 

 cheek below each eye, an imperfect suborbital che^^.■on, base 

 of backs of ears, a chest-band, about fourteen more or less 

 distinct transverse stripes on body, and a few spots low 

 down on haunches, as well as a considerable proportion of 

 the hairs in the dorsal crest, and the whole under surface of 

 the tail, white ; legs from just above knees and hocks to 

 hoofs bright tan, with a patch on inner side of upper part of 

 front pair, the inner sides of the knees, and the backs of the 

 front-shanks, as well as the inner sides of the thighs and 

 hocks, white ; back of pasterns black ; a pair of white spots 

 on front of pasterns above hoofs. 



Female bright chestnut, with a dark face-blaze, a whitish 

 chevron, and about eleven transverse stripes and a few 

 haunch-spots white ; dorsal stripe black, intersected with 

 white where crossed by transverse stripes ; no long mane 

 or fringes. 



