THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 48 



CHANLEii'S KEEDBUCK. 



IIeDUXCA EILVOKUFULA ClIANLEKl. 



Cervica-pra chanleri, Eothschild, Novit. Zool. ii. p. 53, 1895. 



Cervicapra fulvorujula chanleri, Jackson in Bryden, Great and Small 



Game of Africa, p. 317, 1899. 

 Redunca chanleri, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 722, 1905. 

 Redunca fulvortifula chanleri, Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 487, 



1910. 



Rather smaller than the typical race and paler in colour ; a 

 dark nose stripe is sometimes present. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 249) : — length on 

 front cui-ve 6 ; circumference 8| ; spread from tip to tip -1. 



Tj'pical locality, Mountains East of Mt. Kenya, Kenya Colony ; 

 range includes the greater part of Kenya Colony from the 

 Tanganyika Territory border along the Kift Valley to Lake 

 Rudolf and Southern Abyssinia. 



222-225 —19.7.15.247-250. Kenya Colony. 



WATERBUCK. 



KOBITS ELLIPSIPllYMXUS. 



Antilope ellipsiprymnus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 47. 

 Kobus ellipsiprymmis, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. pt. xii. 

 pis. xxviii. and xxix., 1840. 



Size large, height at shoulder from -IS to 58 inches, (rencral 

 colour brownish grey, vmderparts white ; a well-dehned white 

 elliptical band on rump, extending down on each sidtr to flanks. 

 Horns large and verj' distinctly ringed, good horns measuring 

 from 80 to 86| inches in length. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 252) : — length on 

 front curve 8O5 ; circumference 10 ; spread from tip to ti^i 22. 



Typical locality, between Latuku and the west coast, South 

 Africa. The species is found throughout the greater part of 

 South Africa north of the Limpopo. The Common Waterbuck 

 also occm'S as far north as Somaliland and Kenya Colony ; several 

 geographical races have been described from Kenya Colony and 

 Tanganyika Territory, and no doubt the East African specimens 



