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of Antelopes state that this skiu is uo louger to be 

 found there. 



The only specimen recorded is a mounted one in the 

 Seuckeubergian Museum at Frankfort a/M., which accord- 

 ing to Dr. Sclater is probably of this species: it is » nearly 

 uniform brown ; forehead ferruginous ; black round the 

 feet". (Of. Book of Antelopes, vol. I, p. 14). 



At the days that I worked out my » Catalogue des 

 Mammifères" I had no other specimens for comparison, so 

 I exhibited an adult male specimen belonging to the Bu- 

 balis-geuus as Alcelaphus huhalis (Pallas). But. after a study 

 of the Antelope-book of Sclater and Thomas I see that I 

 was wrong and that the Leyden Museum possesses a nearly 

 unique specimen of the true Buhalis major! 



Color: as our adult male specimen belongs apparently 

 to the eldest animals of our collection (in 1853 Temminck 

 mentioned it in his Esquisses zoologiques, p. 195) it is 

 much faded, having been exposed for more than half a 

 century to the day-light, the following mode of coloration 

 however clearly is to be seen. The pale brown color of 

 upperparts presents a peculiar fine grizzled hue, resulting 

 from the short hairs having yellowish white tips : a white 

 band between the eyes, much feebler than in the Cape 

 Hartebeest {Bubalis caama), upperparts of head more rufous 

 brown, chin and all four legs blackish brown from beneath 

 the knees downwards; on the forehead up to the horns 

 the hairs are longer and more vividly colored ; upperlips 

 of a brownish red color; terminal part of tail black. 



Head: length from between the horns to upperlip fol- 

 lowing the curve 55.5 cm.; eye to anterior v margin of 

 nostrils 33 cm., ear-opening 18 cm.; length of horns, 

 measured round the curves 51.5 cm. (35 cm. in buselaphus) ; 

 hoofs apparently more strongly developed than in the other 

 Bubalis-STpecies. 



The history of the origin of our specimen is unknown, 

 on the label is given »Afrique septentrionale" as locality. 



!N"otes from, the Leyden. IVEuseum, "Vol. XIXIII. 



