THE SELOUS COLLECTION. Gl 



351 —19. 7. 15. 376. Skin, mounted. July, 1892. Hanyani River, 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 



352 -19.7.15.377 (female). 10 July, 1883. Near soiirce of 



Hanyani River, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia, 



SABLE ANTELOPE. 



HiPPOTBAGUS NIGEK NIGER. 



Aigocenis nifjer, Harris, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1838, p. 2; Trans. Zool. Soc. 



vol. ii. p. 213, pi. xxxix., 1838; Portraits Wild Animals S.Africa, 



p. 126, pi. xxiii., 1840 ; Wild Sports S. Africa, ed. 5, pp. 216 and 349, 



pi. xxii., 1852. 

 Hippotragns nicjer, Simdevall. K. Svenska Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 197, 



1846. 

 Hippotragus niger uiger, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungialate Mamm. 



Brit. Mus. vol. iii. p. 143, 1914. 



Size rather smaller than in the Roan Antelope ; shoulder-height 

 ahout 52 to 54 inches. Horns considerably longer and more 

 compressed ; good horns measure 45 inches or more in length. In 

 some animals the horns are nearly parallel, in others widely spread. 

 Female horns shorter and more slender in build. General colour 

 very dark brown, the coat appearing cpiite glossy ; rump, front of 

 thighs, and belh^ white, the white underparts sharply contrasting 

 w4th the dark flanks. Face markings somewhat like those of the 

 Roan, l)ut no light patches behind eyes, and the dark frontal and 

 nasal marking extends almost to end of nose ; below this is a well- 

 defined white lateral face stripe, communicating posteriorly with 

 the white tufted areas above eyes. A dark eye-stripe extends 

 along sides of face to just below posterior border of nostril. Lips, 

 muzzle, sides and underparts of lower jaw white. In the females 

 the coat is never as dark as in the adult males, a rufous tint 

 predominatin g. 



Best horn measui'ements (No. 19. 7. 15. 393) : — length on 

 front curve 44^, circumference 9| ; spread from tip to tip 8|. 

 This specimen has the smallest tip to tip interval of the male 

 heads in the Collection ; the greatest spread is in No. 19.7.15.887, 

 where the horn-tips are 19| inches apart. Of the females No. 19. 

 7. 15. 380 possesses the finest horns : — length on front curve 39^ ; 

 circumference 6| ; spread from tip to tip 6f. 



Typical locality, Cashan Mountains, North-western Transvaal ; 

 the range extending as far north as North West Rhodesia. 



