222 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



inconspicuous or wanting ; tail reaching about to level of 

 groin, and very bushy, fawn above, and wliite below. Good 

 horns range in length from 7 to 8| inches, with a girth of 

 from 3 J to 5^, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 3 to 6 inches. 



In the skull the tympanic sheath, which encloses the 

 tympano-hyal pit, is low, and does not extend downwards 

 on sides of bullce ; knobbed processes of basioccipital small 

 and short ; facial portion of lachrymal long, narrow, and 

 extendinix on orbit well behind termination of nasal ; orbit 

 large, its vertical diameter one-half length of nasal ; infra- 

 orbital vacuity situated posteriorly above front end of 

 penultimate upper premolar ; masseter knob on sides of 

 maxillffi small; pit at base of condyles posterior to bullae 

 deep ; lachrymo-nasal sinus narrow ; premaxilloe long. In 

 the more typical members of the genus the skull differs by 

 the longer tympanic sheath, the greater development of the 

 knobbed processes of the basioccipital, the smaller orbit, and 

 the wider and shorter lachrymal. 



The rans^e includes the eastern districts of Africa south 

 of the Zambesi, more especially Natal, Zululand, and 

 Bechuanaland, and thence through British East Africa to 

 Gallaland. 



The races are distinguishable as follows : — 



A. Length of skull 9^^ inches (230 mm.), of upper 



series of cheek-teeth 2| inches (60 mm.).. B. f.fidvorufiila. 



B. Length of skull 8^| inches (225 mm.), of upper 



series of cheek-teeth 2 J inches (57 mm.). 



a. Typically a dark nose-stripe -^' /• clianleri. 



h. Typically no dark nose- stripe . . ^- /• shoana. 



A.— Redunca fulvorufula fulvorufula. 



Typical locality eastern Cape Colony. 



Characters as above. 



630, d. Skull, with horns. South Africa. 



Presented hi/ Dr. IF. J. Burcliell, about 1817. 

 43. 6. G. 12. Skull and skin, female. Cape Colony ; 

 collected by Dr. Brandt. Purchased, 1843. 



51. 5. 5. (3. Skull, with horns. Orange Eiver district. 



Purehased {Argent), 1851. 

 51. 5. 5. 6. Skull, female. Same locality. Sctine history. 



