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an open oval, more pronounced than in the allied species, 

 as it seems to me. 



length of horn along the curve 56 cm. 



circumference at base 19 » 



distance of extremities 18 » 



greatest distance in the middle 30 » 



Nasal bones not coming together in a point but end- 

 ing concavously on the forehead ; praemaxillaries not 

 reaching the nasal bones. 



length of skull 26.5 cm. 



» » upper molar series 8.8 » 



» » nasal bones 10.75 » 



Mr. van der Keilen labeled the shull as that of a Lit- 

 zieja (indigenous name) or Meerhok. According to Mr. 

 Rothschild the Boers call the animal Kringhart (written 

 kring-hart by the authors of the Book of Antelopes). Now 

 kringhart is a nonsense word, as kring = circle or ring 

 and hart means heart, Mr. Rothschild however adds » kring- 

 hart, the same name the Boers give to the Waterbuck in 

 the Transval". Now it is well koown by Dutchmen that 

 the Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) is called by the Boers 

 not kringhart or kringaat (this is quite nonseuse too as 

 »aat'" has no meaning at all) as in the Book of Antelo- 

 pes, but kringgat, because it has a kring ■= circle or ring 

 round its gat = anus. As we know Kohus Penricei has no 

 » kring round its anus", v. d. Kellen's name Meerhok the- 

 refore is more correct, so that the species in future ought 

 to be called so ; the common Waterbuck, K. ellipsiprymnus, 

 moreover is the only species having a white rumpband, 

 or the true kringgat. 



The genus should be written Kohus and not Cobus, the 

 former bearing priority. 



Although Rothschild's single type-specimen {(f) has been 

 figured in the »Novitates zoologicae" by Keulemans and 

 in the »Book of Antelopes" by Smit there is a striking 

 difierence in the two heads, namely in the latter figure 

 the white stripe runs over the eye, meanwhile in Rothschild's 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. X!XIII. 



