40 TlrE SELOl+S COLLECTION. 



absent. Size medium, height at shoulder 29 to 30 inches. Horns 

 uhnost vertical, sharply pointed, and with well-marked rings on 

 the basal portion ; good horns are from <S to 11| inches in length. 

 Coat wooll^y ; general colour greyish fawn with dark patch on chin. 



The horns of the mounted head in tlie Collection measure 

 81 inches in length, and 2| inches from tip to tip. 



Tyi^ical locality, Cape Colony ; the species is fairly widely 

 distributed in South Africa, extending into Southern Jvhodesia, but 

 is not found north of the Zambesi. 



198 —19.7.15.223. April, 189.5. Fairfield, near Caledon, Cape 



Colony. 



199 —19. 7. 15. 224. Horns. Caledon District, Cape Colony. 



KIETBOK, 01? JIEEDBITCK. 



KeDUNCA (ElEOTBAGLS) AKUNDINUM ARUNUIJS'UM. 



A)itilo2)e armidinmn, Boddaert, Elenchus Aniin. p. 141, 1785. 



Antilojje eleotragus, Schreber, Saugthiere, pi. cclxvi., 1787. 



Antilope (Redunca) eleotracjus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 



vol. V. p. 337, 1827. 

 Redunca eleotragus, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii. p. 210, 



1834. 

 Eleotragus isabellinus. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 165, 1843. 

 Eleotragus arundinaceus, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii. 



p. 232, 1846 ; ser. 2, vol. viii. p. 144, 1851 ; List Osteol. Brit. Mus. 



p. 57, 1847; Knowsley Menagerie, p. 12, 1850; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 



p. 126; Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 91. 1852; Cat. Euminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 18, 1872 ; Hand-List Eimiinants Brit. Mus. p. 88, 1873. 

 Cervicapra arundinacea, Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 758: 



A Hunter's Wanderings in S. Africa, p. 216, 1881. 

 Cervicapra arundinnm, Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 340, 



1891. 

 Redunca arundiimm, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Supi^l. p. 721, 1905. 

 Redunca (Eleotragus) arundinnm, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 203, 1914. 

 Redunca arundinnm arundiniim,, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 206, 1914. 



The larger size and longer and much heavier horns distinguish 

 this species from all the other members of the genus EcJunca. 

 Height at shoulder about 36 inches. Horns in fine specimens, 

 from 15 to 174 inches in length. 



