22 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



jedoch erhielt ich ein Stuck Fleisch lait Haut dieses Thieres 

 aus Carpenter's Settlement am oberen Mahfa River. Eia 

 Jagdausflug nach jeuer Gegend, zu dem mich dieser Um- 

 stand veraulasste, blieb jedoch wegen eingetretenen Regens 

 ohne Resultat. 



As the series of specimens collected by Büttikofer and 

 Stampfli demonstrates, this species is not uncommon in 

 the countries where it lives. 



In a paper in the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1885, 

 p. 271, I observed that I nowhere could find Gray's des- 

 cription of Antilope zebra in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist, 

 for 1836 or foregoing volumes, meanwhile Gray several 

 times cited the year 1836 of the named Journal as the 

 year that he described the species : now I find Gray's first 

 word on this species in the above named Journal, 1838, 

 p. 27 , where he described it (under the name of Antilope 

 zebra) in three lines, entirely overlooking Ogilby's prio- 

 rity of date, notwithstanding Gray was present at the 

 meeting of the Zoological Society , at which Ogilby gave 

 the name of Antilope doria to the animal in question and 

 notwithstanding the original skin of the animal had long 

 been exhibited , with Ogilby's name attached , in the Mu- 

 seum of the Zoological Society, to which Gray was a fre- 

 quent visitor, besides being a member of the Museum 

 Committee! (Cf. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1838, p. 217 and 

 p. 293). Gray had the intention to correct his error but 

 instead of doing so , he introduced still more confusion 

 by the incorrect synonymes in his List of spec, of Mam- 

 malia, 1843, p. 163. 



In the males (see plate 3) the horns are much lon- 

 ger than in the females and more curved outwards. The 

 skull figured in the Notes from the Leyden Museum, 1885, 

 is that of a female and not of a male , as I wrote by an 

 unfortunate mistake. This female was the mother of the 

 young specimen described by me in 1885; its skin has 

 been found in the dense forest , the day after the animal was 



Notes from tlie Leyden lyEuseuin, "Vol. X. 



