24 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



1871, p. 489) two frontal bones with horns belonging to 

 our species. In the diagnosis (1. c. p. 485) sir Victor Brooke 

 characterized Tragelaphus euryceros as having » Neck , back 

 and belly maneless'\ meanwhile in the accompanying plate the 

 young male is represented with a maned neck, back and belly. 

 De Rochebrune says that this species is »assez commun. 

 Cayor, Oualo, forêts de Gommiers de la rive droite du 

 Senegal". But it does not appear that he has brought over 

 to Europe a single skin of it. 



The first adult and at the same time the first com- 

 plete specimen has been collected by Büttikofer in Liberia 

 and is now with its skeleton in the Leyden Museum. It 

 is from the neighborhood of Hill-town. There are two 

 flat skins , without head and legs , in the collections of 

 Büttikofer and Stampfli, one, a young one , from the Mahfa 

 River, the other from the Junk River still more adult 

 than our complete specimen. 



Description of the adult male : 

 Length along the curve of the back , mea- 

 sured from upperlip to root of tail . . . 199 cM. 



Tail without tuft 37 » 



» with tuft 41 » 



Height from the haunches 105 » 



Length of ear 22 » 



Breadth » » 13 » 



Length of horns 54 » 



Distance between the tops of the horns . . 30,5 » 



The number of the white stripes on the back is very 

 inconstant and sometimes different on the left and right 

 side of the same animal , f. i. in the Mahfa River-specimen 

 11 on each side, in the Hill-town-specimen 15 on the right 

 and 13 on the left side, in the Junk River-specimen 14 

 on the right and 13 on the left side. In the Mahfa River- 

 specimen one of the stripes is bifurcated on its lowerhalf. 



Tail chestnut above, underside white, tuft black. 



Belly black ; fore legs black , except a large white patch 



Notes from the Leyden Mluseum , Vol. X. 



