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Antilope nioschata, Wagner, Sclirehers Saugtliiere, Sitjppl. vol. v, 



p. 415, 1855. 

 Nanotragus moschatus, Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 642 ; Flower 



and LydeJcJcer, Study of Mammals, p. 339, 18J1 ; True, Proc. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xv, 1892; LydeJchcr, Horns and Hoofs, 



p. 217, 1893; JacJiSon, Big Game Shooting {Badminton Library), 



vol. i, p. 285, 1894. 

 Cephalophorus zanzibaricus, Layard, Cat. Mamm. S. African Mus. 



p. 71, 1861. 

 Nesotragus kirchenpaueri. Pagenstecher, Jahrb. Mus. Hamburg, vol. ii, 



p. 36, 1885. 

 Neotragus moschatus, LydekTier, Game Animals of Africa, p. 185, 



1908; Ward, Hecords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 181, 1910. 



SUNI. 



Typical locality Zanzibar. 



The type of Nesotragus. 



Size small ; shoulder-height from 13 to 14 inches. 

 General colour typically dull, finely grizzled fawn-grey, with 

 a tinge of rufous, especially on face and sides of neck ; a 

 brown patch on tip of nose ; throat pale rufous ; chin, under- 

 parts, and inner sides of legs white ; legs below knees and 

 hocks rufous, with the exception of the pasterns, which are 

 brown ; tail coloured like back above, whitish below. Basal 

 length of skull 4 inches (101 mm.), maximum breadth 2\ 

 (57 mm.), distance from orbit to muzzle 2\ inches (54 mm.). 

 Good horns measure from 2J to 3| inches in length, with a 

 basal girth of from 1^ to 1| inches. 



The range includes small islands in the harbour of 

 Zanzibar and the mainland from British East Africa through 

 the Kilimanjaro district to Mozambique. 



The species has been subdivided as follows : — 



A. General colour darker — chestnut-brown N. m. alieleyi. 



B. General colour medium- — dull grizzled fawn N. m. moschatus. 



c. General colour light — cinnamon rufous N. m. deserticola. 



A. — Neotragus moschatus moschatus. 



Characters as under head of species. 



Typical locality Zanzibar. 



64. 3. 20. 1. Skin, mounted. Zanzibar Island. 



Presented hy Capt. J. H. SpeJce, 1864. 

 64. 3. 20. 2. Skin and skull, female. Same locality. 



Same history. 



