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figure the white stripe passes over the eye to the base of 

 horns. The two authors describe it according these figures. 

 Indeed a puzzle ! 



In ray opinion no plate at all is much better than two 

 plates which do not agree although prepared from one 

 and the same specimen ! 



Kohus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby). 



Mr. W. L. Sclater (the Fauna of South-Africa, Mam- 

 mals, 1900, Vol. I, p. 187) says that the Waterbuck »is 

 not found within the limits of the Cape Colony proper, 

 but from the Limpopo River northwards it becomes fairly 

 abundant", a. s. o. In our Museum are of this species : 

 two adult males and one ditto female, besides two nearly 

 fullgrown specimens, male and female ; they have been 

 collected more than half a century ago by the well-known 

 Mr. Wahlberg, who collected in the Cape Colony and 

 Natal. These specimens therefore are from a much more 

 southern place of origin than the specimens in the British 

 and in the South-African Museums, as the British Museum 

 contains a mounted pair from Mashonaland, meanwhile in 

 the South-African Museum there is a fine mounted pair, obtai- 

 ned the male in Bechuaualand, the female in Mashonaland ; 

 these four specimens have been collected by Mr. Selous. 



Antidorcas euchore (Zimmerman). 



Mr. W. L. Sclater, the Director of the South-African 

 Museum, Cape Town, assures in »the Mammals of South- 

 Africa", p. 211, that over a considerable part of its range, 

 especially in the more settled parts of the Colony, of the 

 Free State and of the Transvaal, Antidorcas euchore only 

 now exists within the fences of large farms, and can hardly 

 be said to be any longer truly feral and that this species 

 is not and never has been found in the Cape, Stellenbosch 

 and other south-western and southern districts. 



It seems indeed that no Museum has specimens from 



Notes from the Lieyden Miuseum, Vol. XXIII. 



