THE BIG GAME OF AFRICA 



which I shot on the Laikipia Plateau, I later presented to 

 the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm to 

 be mounted for the Museum of Natural History. I men- 

 tioned at the time to the curator that I thought it might be 

 a new species. I was more than delighted, therefore, when 

 a few weeks later I received a letter from Prof. Einar 

 Lonnberg, inquiring about when and where this animal 

 had been shot, as he had found that it evidently represented 

 a new subspecies, which he described in a pamphlet issued 

 by the " K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien in Stockholm, 

 Band 4, No. 3." 



As the reader may be interested in the characteristics 

 of this new subspecies, I will here reprint the Professor's 

 own description : 



" Cohus defassa tjadcri (nczv subsp.) 



" The typical Cobus defassa (Ruppell) is a well-known 

 animal, distinguished from its nearest allies (those which 

 are, like the defassa, provided with a white rump-patch), 

 by its rather long and somewhat pointed ears, a white 

 patch on the upper throat, the red color of the forehead 

 and the general rufous brown coloration of the body. 



" The specimen presented by Mr. Tjader, and named 

 after him, undoubtedly belongs to the defassa group, but 

 it differs so much from the typical form that I believe it 

 must at least provisionally be regarded as representing a 

 new geographic subspecies. This difference makes itself 

 known especially in the much dark areas, which later may 

 be seen on the accompanying figure of the skin. 



" The black of the face extends above the white ring 

 round the muzzle upward to above the middle of the white 

 eye-stripe and on the sides to the corner of the mouth. It 

 has thus a considerably greater extension than in the true 



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