TTIK SKLOrs COLLECTTOX. 67 



Proceedings of the Zoolou'ieul Societ}- for ISSl, an extract from 

 whieli is quoted above. 



375 ^19. 7. 15. 400. April, 189G. Near East London, Cape Colony. 



376-377 —19.7.1.5.401-402. March. 1870. Near Algoa Bay. Cape 

 Colony. 



NYALA, OR INYALA. 

 Tragelaphus axgasi. 



Tmgelnjjlius angasi, Angas, Proc. Zool. See. 1848, p. 89, pis. iv. and v. 

 Eurijceros cnigasi, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 48, 1872 ; Hand- 

 list Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 119, 1873. 

 Nyala angasi. Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix. no. 8. p. 16, 1912. 



Considerably larger than the Bushbucks ; height at shoulder 

 about 42 inches. Horns heavier and longer, good specimens 

 measuring from 27 to 81| inches in length. In the adult male a 

 heavy dark fringe of long hairs extends from the throat down the 

 neck on to the chest and l)ellj. General colour greyish brown, 

 dorsal crest white ; about fourteen indistnict whitish bands on 

 sides of body and a few faint white spots on haunches. Face 

 markings of the Bushlnick pattern ; sviborbital chevron present, 

 but incomplete. Lower part of legs bright buff, with white 

 patches ; dark blackish markings above hocks and knees. Female 

 bright rufous in colour with dai-k dorsal crest and eleven well- 

 defined transverse white bands on sides of bod}*. Face with dark 

 brown nasal marking. Mane, long fringe, and black marks on 

 limbs absent. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. l-J. 405) :— -length on 

 front curve 2(S^ ; in straight line from point to base 24 ; circum- 

 ference 8 ; spread from tip to tip 10 g. 



Typical locality, St. Lucia Bay, Zululand, The range of the 

 Nj'^ala extends from Northern Natal through Mozambique and 

 Nyasaland to Lake Mwei-u. In 1896 Selous made a special 

 journey to Tongaland to obtain specimens of this rare antelope. 

 In addition to the two heads and two pairs of horns mentioned 

 below, he also obtained two entire specimens and presented them 

 to the Museum, where they are now on exhibition. (B.M. Nos. 

 96. 11. 28. 9-10). 



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