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94. 3. 8. 11. Skin. Same locality. 



Presented hy Sir Alfred Sharpe, K.C.M.G., C.B., 1894. 

 8. 2. 14. 11. Skull, with horns. South Angoniland. 



Presented hy C. P. C. Storey, Esq., 1908. 



E.— Kobus defassa penricei. 



Cobiis penricei, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. ii, p. 32, pi. iv, 1895, 



PoweU-Cotton's Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, p. 466, 1902 ; 



Bryden, Field, vol. Ixxxvii, p. 653, 1896 ; Sclater and Thomas, 



Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 113, pi. xxv, 1896. 

 Cobus defassa penricei, Penrice, Great and Small Game of Africa, 



p. 281, 1899 ; Lydekker, Game Animals of Africa, p. 201, 1908 ; 



Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 197, 1910. 

 Kobus penricei, Matschie, Sitzher. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1910, p. 409» 



Mitt. Zool, Mus. Berlin, vol. v, pt. 3, p. 564, 1911. 



Including 



Kobus penricei frommi, Matschie, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. v, 



pt. 3, p. 563, 1911, western German E. Ah-ica. 

 Kobus penricei muenzneri, Matschie, op. cit. p. 567, 1911, German 



E. Africa, east of Tankan^ika. 



Typical locality interior of Benguela, Angola. 



Type in Tring Museum. 



General colour deep brownish black, mingled with 

 reddish l)rown hairs, thus producing a blue-roan effect, 

 most marked on under-parts and back ; face black, except 

 at base of horns and between ears, where it is chestnut ; a 

 white patch on upper part of throat ; backs of ears rufous 

 brown, with blackish margins and tips ; lower part of legs 

 nearly uniform black, with a narrow white hoof-band ; tail 

 black above and wliite beneath. Horns relatively short and 

 stout ; fine Angolan specimens measuring from 24J to 

 29 inches in length, with a girth of from 8 to 8j, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval of from 9^ to 20 inches. 



If the above-mentioned forms named by ]\Iatschie are 

 really nearly related to the typical j:>f?i?'icci, the range of the 

 race (or of nearly allied races) will include western German 

 East Africa. 



0. 10. 13. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin. Balomba 

 Valley, Angola. Presented by G. IV. Penrice, Esq., 1900. 



0. 10. 14. 1. Skull and skin, female. Same locality; 

 collected by G. W. Penrice, Esq. Purchased (Gerrard), 1900. 



