I'HE SELOUS COLLECTION. 50 



the nose-patcli is narrower and not connected with the eve-stripes ; 

 no fringe or tuft on tliroat. This race appears to he intermediate 

 hetw^een the Ah^'ssinian Ori/x heisa (jdUanon and the Kilimanjaro 

 Fringed-eared Eeisa, Orijx beisa caJIotis. It is very much greyer 

 in colour than the Ahyssinian form, and may he distinguished at 

 once from call of is hy the ahsence of the long dark ear-fringes. 



Best horn measvirements (No. 19. 7. 15. 350) : — length on 

 front f34< ; circumference 6| ; spread from tip to tip Og. 



Typical locality, Laikipia Plateau, Laikipia District, Kenya 

 Colony. Range extends from the north bank of the Tana River 

 across the northern slopes of Mt. Kenj'a to Lake Baringo, and 

 northwards across the Northern Guaso Nyiro and along the 

 Turkwel River to Lake Rudolf and towards the Abyssinian 

 border. 



332-334 —19.7.15.357-359. 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro District, 

 Kenya Colony. 

 335 —19.7. 15. 360 (female). 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro District, 

 Kenya Colony. 

 336-340 —19.7.15.361-365 (sex not recorded). 1912. Northern 



Guaso Nyiro District, Kenya Colony. 

 341-342 — 19. 7. 15. 366-367 (sex not recorded). Sungari Rongai River, 

 Kenya Province, Kenya Colony. 



ROAN ANTELOPE. 



HiPPOTRAGUS EQUIIS'US EQUIXUS. 



A)itilope equina, Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. vol. xxiv. p. 4, and 



Tabl. p. 32, 1804 ; Mammalogie, vol. ii. p. 476, 1822. 

 Aigoceros barbata, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii. p. 186, 



1834. 

 Aigoceros equinus, A. Smith, op. cit. p. 185, 1834. 

 Hippotragus equinus, Sundevall, K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, 



p. 197, 1846. 

 Hippotragus equinus typicus, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, 



vol. iv. p. 13, 1899. 

 Hippotragus equinus eqxnnus, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. iii. p. 136, 1914. 



Size large, height at shoulder occasionall}- as much as 60 inches. 

 Horns stout, comparatively short, cylindrical, and heavily ridged ; 

 good horns from 30 to 34 inches in length. General colour 



