'riiK sELors c'OLLi:cTio>*. 57 



and Taveta District tt) north-east of Mt. Kiliiiianjaro, passing 

 southwards along the liit't \'allev into Tanganyika Territory. 



313 ^19.7.15.338. 1 April, 1SU2. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colonj'. 



314 —19.7.15.339. 10 March, 191-2. Northern (Juaso Nyiro 



District, Ivenya Colony. 



315 —19.7.15.340. January, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



316 —19. 7. 15. 341. 30 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



317 —19. 7. 15. 342. 15 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



318 - 19. 7. 15. 343. 13 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



319 —19.7.15.344. 14 February, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro 



District, Kenya Colony, 



Subfamily ORYGIN^. 



GEMSBUCK. 

 Oetx uazella. 



Capra gazella, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 69, 1758 ; ed. 12, vol. i. 



p. 96, 1766. 

 Antilope oryx, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii. pp. 16 and 61, 1777. 

 Cerophorits (Oi-y.r) ory.r, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 

 Onyx onyx, Gray, Medical Repository, vol. xv. p. 307, 1821, misprint for 



Oryx oryx. 

 Oryx oryx, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. xi. p. 204, 1835. 

 Oryx capeusi*', Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 139. 

 Oryx gazella. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 156, 1843 ; Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii. p. 232, 1846 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 134 ; 



Knowsley Menagerie, p. 17, 1850 ; Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 105, 



1852 ; Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1872 ; Hand-List Ruminants 



Brit. Mus. p. 104, 1873. 



The Gemsbuck is the largest member of the genus, the height 

 at shoulder about 48 inches. Hair long and rough, very different 

 to the short-haired coat of the East African Beisa. Dark markings 

 on face veiy prominent, the frontal or nose-patch communicating 

 with dark eye-stripe and continued on to throat ; dark throat 

 marking without any median light patch or stripe, such as always 

 occurs in 0. he/,s« annectens. Horns longer than in the East 



