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(?) Adenota kul and A. wuil, Hciiglin, Joe. rit. 



Hydrotragus Icucotis, Fitzinger, Sitzbrr. l\ A/,-. WifiS. Wicu, vol. lix, 

 pt. 1, p. 175, 1869. 



Cervicapra leucotis, Balfer, [srnailia, vol. ii, p. 531, 1874. 



Cobiis lencotis, Ward, Brcords of Big Ganir, p. 91, 1892, cd. 6, 

 p. 200, 1910 ; LydeH-er, Horns and Hoofs, p. 224, 1898, Great 

 and Small Gams of Africa, p. 269, 1899, Field, vol. cviii. p. 138, 

 1906, Game Animals of Africa, p. 206, 1908 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 127, pi. xxxviii, 1896 ; 

 Bryden, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 287, 1899 ; 

 Tliomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 85 ; Rothscliild, Bnwell- 

 Cotton's Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, p. 467, 1902. 



Cobns (Adenota) leucotis, BeviUiod, Verh. nat. Ges. Basle, vol. xxxiv, 

 p. 210, 1913. 



Typical locality swamps (jf tlie White Nile, aljout sixty 

 miles below Khartum. 



Type in Zoological Museum, Berlin. 



Size approximately the same as in tliomad. General 

 colour — in adult bucks — deepl)lack ; a large patch round the 

 eyes and ears of each side, the whole of the l)acks of the 

 ears, the muzzle, chin, and upper part of throat, together 

 with chest and inner sides of upper portion of limbs, white ; 

 fronts of fore-legs and lower part of those of hind pair, with 

 the exception of a broad white hoof-band to each, blackish ; 

 horns relatively slender. Young males, and apparently 

 females at all ages, fulvous. Good horns measure from 21 to 

 22j inches in length (in one case, if rightly determined, 24j), 

 with a girth of from 6 to 7 J inches, and a tip-to-tip interval 

 of from 6f to 15f inches. Whether some or all adult l)ucks 

 assume a seasonal fulvous phase is not known. 



The range embraces the swamps of the Upper Nile region, 

 inclusive of the Sobat. 



0. 8. 7. 3. Skin, mounted. AVhite Nile. This and the 

 two following specimens appear to be in some degree inter- 

 mediate between typical leucotis and nigroscajntlatus. 



Presented hij Major H. N. Dunn, 1900. 



0. 8. 7. 4. Skull, with horns, and skin. Same locality. 



>iariie history. 



0. 8. 7. 5. Skin. Same locality. Same history. 



