THE SELOUS COLLEOTIOX. f);") 



and northern slopes of Mt. Kenya, northwards across the Nortlicrn 

 Guaso Nyiro Valley towards Lake liudolf. 



299-305 —19.7.15.324-330. January and February, 1912. Northern 

 Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. 



SPKINGEUCK. 



AXTIDOKCAS MAKSUPIALIS MARSUPIALIS. 



La Gazelle a bourse sur le don, Allamand, Schneider'.s ed. Buffon's 



llistoire Naturelle, Suppl. vol iv. p. 142, pi, Ix., 1778. 

 Antilope marsiii^ialis, Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. ii. p. 427, 



1780. 

 Antilope euchore, "Forst.," Zimmermann, op. cit. vol. iii. p. 269, 1783. 

 Gazella eucJwre, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii. p. 191, 1834. 

 Antidorcas euclwre, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p. 271, 



1847. 

 Antidorcas marsupialis, Elliot, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. no. 115, vol. viii.) p. 75, 1907. 

 A^itidorcas marsupialis marsupialis, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. iii. p. Ill, 1914. 



Distinguished from the Gazelles by the presence of a large 

 evertible dorsal gland extending from middle of back to rump, and 

 lined with long white hairs, the absence of inguinal glands, and 

 presence of only two pairs of lower premolars. Horns of medium 

 size (from 14 to 19g inches in length in good sjjecimens), sub- 

 lyrate, with incurved tips. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 331) : — length on front 

 curve 13g ; circumference G ; spread from tip to tip 5|. Of the 

 female specimens No. 19. 7. 15. 334 has exceptionally long horns, 

 measuring 10| inches in length with a tip to tip interval of 

 5| inches. 



Typical locality, probably southern Cape Colony ; range includes 

 the Orange River Colony and Bechuanaland, extending westwards 

 into Angola. 



Selous * gives the following account of the distribution of the 

 Springbuck in South Africa in the j^ear 1881: — "The Springbok 

 is still found in the north-western portions of the Cape Colony, 

 and throughout the Free State, Transvaal, and Griqualand West, 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 757.- 



