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The distributional area comprises the inouiitainoiis 

 districts of north-eastern Africa, exclusive of Somalihuid ; 

 also Abyssinia, from Erythra?a to the Hawash Valley, and 

 thence eastward to Harar; while it may also include the 

 country between the Hawash Valley and Lake Eudolf. 



73. 2. 24. 15. Skull, with horns, and skin. Bogosland, 

 Abyssinia. Purchased, 187o. 



73. 2. 24. 14. Skin, lemale. Same locality. 



Same history. 

 73. 2. 24. 21. Skull, with horuR. Same locality. 



Same historij. 

 44. 5. 14. 37. Skull, with horns, and skin. Abyssinia. 



Purchased, 1847. 



C.-^Oreotragrus oreotragus aureus. 



Oreotragus oreotragus aureus, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, 

 no. 13, p. 7, 1913. 



Typical locality Mt. Lololohwi, north of Guaso-nyiro, 

 B. E. Africa. 



Type in U. S. National Museum. 



Provisionally recognised as a race, diagnosed as follows : — 

 General colour golden yellow, lighter than in saltatrixoides ; 

 limbs much paler than body ; hoof-spot large ; crown of head 

 rufous, in marked contrast to body-colour. 



13. 10 9. 1-3. Three skulls and skins, female, Guaso- 

 narok, northern Guaso-nyiro. The difference in colour 

 between the body and legs is very slight, but the rufous 

 crown is well-marked. 



Presented hy F. Russell Roberts, Esci., 1913. 



D,— Oreotragrus opeotragrus schilling'si. 



Oreotragus schillingsi, O. Neumann, Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1902, 

 p. 172; BooseveJt, African Game Trails, p. 487, 1910. 



Oreotragus saltator schillingsi, LydcMier, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 167, 1908, Su2)pl. p. 9, 1911. 



Oreotragus oreotragus schillingsi, Hollistcr, Smithson. Misc. Collect. 

 vol. Ivi, no. 2, p. 3, 1910. 



Typical locality northern German East Africa. 



Type apparently in the collection of ]\lr. C. G. Schillings. 



