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basal girth, with a tip-to-tip interval of 21 inches, but in an 

 older specimen the corresponding dimensions are respectively 

 39, 9|, and 22 inches. 



10. 11. 29. 1. Skin, siibadult, mounted. Sahatu Moun- 

 tains, Arusi Gallaland. Type (fig. 26). 



Presented hy Ivor Buxton, Esq., 1910. 

 12. 12. 2. 1. Skull, with horns. Same locality. 



Presented hy J. Eowland Ward, Esq., 1912. 

 14. 5. 7. 1. Two body-skins. Same locality. 



Presented hy Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1914. 



2. Subgenus LIMNOTRAGUS. 



Hydrotragus, Gray, Cat. Bwminants Brit. Mus. p. 49, 1872, nee 



Fitzinger, 1866. 

 Limnotragus, Sclater and Thomas,* Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, 



pp. 90 and 108, 1900; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 930; 



Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, no. 8, p. 16, 1912. 



Hoofs elongated, backs of pasterns bare. 



The range includes the Congo Valley and the neighbour- 

 hood of the great lakes of southern and eastern Africa, 

 extending northwards to Tanganyika and the Bahr-el-Ghazal, 

 and southwards to the Chobi and Zambesi. 



IV. TRAGELAPHUS (LIMNOTRAGUS) SPEKEl. 



Tragelaphus spekei, Sclater, in Speke's Journal of Discovery, p. 223 

 1863, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 103, pi. xii, 1880, p. 452, 1883 

 p. 34 ; Heuglin, Beise Weiss. Nil, p. 319, 1869 ; Peters, Mitt. Ak 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 484; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 485, 1878 

 p. 884; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 83, 1887 

 Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 388 ; Flotver and Lydekker 

 Study of Mammals, p. 347, 1891 ; Ward, Records of Big Game 

 p. 155, 1892 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 254, 1893 ; Jackson 

 Big Game Shooting {Badminton Libr.), vol. i, p. 311, 1894 

 Matschie, Sdugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, p. 135, 1895; Poii 

 sargiies, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 78, 1897 ; Both 

 schild, Novit. Zool. vol. v, p. 206, 1898 ; Gedge, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 476, 1899 ; Letcher, Big Game N. E. Bhodesia, 

 p. 203, 1911 ; Boberts, Ann. Transvaal Mas. vol. iv, p. 106, 1913, 



Eurycerus (Hydrotragus) spekii. Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 49, 1872. 



* In this portion of the work the place of Mr. Thomas was taken 

 by Mr. Pocock. 



