66 THE SKl-OUS COr.LECTIOX. 



roiialeynei^ or 'Bushbuck of the Limpopo.' These Bushbucks 



are smaller tlian those found in the Cape Colony If we 



now take the Bushhucks found on the banks of the Chohe, we 

 find that the adult male is of a very dark red colour, in places 

 merging into a deep brownish black, most beautifully spotted with 

 large white spots, there being as many as fifty on each side in 

 some individuals, and in some cases as many as eight well-defined 

 white stripes besides. There is also a mane of white hair running 

 all down the back from the shoulder to the tail, about 3 inches in 



length, and which the animal can erect at pleasure " 



The Cape Bushbuck described in the above is the animal now 

 known as TrcKjeJapluis script us sj/hudieus. 



371 —19.7.15.396. October, 1887. Lo Magondi's, Mashonaland, 



Southern Rhodesia. 



372 —19.7.15.397. September, 1887. River Angwa, North 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 

 373-374 —19. 7. 15. 398 399. July, 1879. South bank of Cliobe River. 



CAPE BUSHBUCK, 



TliAGELAPIIUS SCEIPTITS SYLVATICUS. 



Antilope sijlvatka, Sparrman, Act. Holm. 1780, p. 197, pi. vii. ; Reisen 

 Guten Hoffnung, p. 517, pi. iii., 1784; English Transl. (Voyage 

 to Cape of Good Hope, etc.) vol. i. p. 270, vol. ii. p. 220, pi. vi., 1786 ; 

 French Transl. vol. i. p. 293, pi. iii. 



Tragekvphus sijli'atiai.s, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Tra(jel(ii}hus scriptns sylvaticits, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 389. 



Size as in ornatiis, horns longer. General colour darker, 

 blackish brown above and without longitudinal or transverse wdiite 

 stripes on sides ; a few small white spots on haunches and 

 shoulders. Short-haired collar-band and face-markings as in the 

 Chobe race. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19.7.15.400): — length on 

 front curve 15f ; circumference 5f ; spread from tip to tip 4|. 



Typical locality, Groot Vadersbosch district. Cape Colony ; 

 range includes Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, 

 Natal, and parts of Portuguese East Africa. 



This race is referi-ed to by Selous in his paper published in the 



