176 EINAR LONNBERG, MAMMALS COLLECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION ETC. 
with his mother, and another Oryx in the thornbush below Chanler Falls. This proves 
that the calving season is not quite regular. 
Tragelaphus haywoodi Tuomas. (?) 
Tuomas: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1905, p. 181. 
Unfortunately I did not succeed in obtaining any Bushbuck when I visited 
such places as Escarpment, and Meru boma where antelopes of this kind were to be 
found. In the dry country, where we spent most of the time collecting, no Bush- 
bucks live. Twice the natives brought Bushbuck-skins for sale but as they were 
very badly mutilated I did not care to buy them. The first time this happened 
near Escarpment station. That skin was dark without any stripes only with some 
few spots. The second skin of Bushbuck was shown to me some distance south of 
Meru boma. It was about chocolate-brown with one faint transverse stripe, and 
some few spots which also were rather faintly developed. 
To judge from the locality, at least the latter skin, and probably the first as 
well, ought to have belonged to the Kenia race of Bushbucks which THomas has 
named as above. THOMAS type which was from Nyiri, a locality intermediate between 
these two, had, however; »three inconspicuous transverse whitish stripes on each side. 
No longitudinal bands, but a few white spots on the sides of the ramp». The num- 
ber of transverse stripes is thus variable in the Bushbucks of the Kenia district. 
Boocercus' eurycerus isaaci THomas. 
Tuomas: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 Ser. Vol. 10, 1902, p. 309. 
At Meru boma I bougth a pair of Bongo horns from a native. The animal 
had been caugth in a pitfall somewhat to the southwest of Meru boma, and as far 
as I could make out, in the upper forest region on the northeastern side of Kenia. 
Length along the front curve nearly 79 cm.; in a straight line 69 mm.; basal circum- 
ference 29'/s cm.; from tip to tip 29 em.; greatest spread (outside) nearly 44 cm. 
As only a part of the skull remains the only measurement of value to be recorded 
is the least interorbital width which is 108 mm. 
I saw also the skin of this animal, but it was very mutilated and in a bad 
state so that I did not care to buy that. It was dark chestnut red with 12 white 
flank stripes. The dorsal stripe was mixed black and white. 
About the end of March when the expedition passed through the mixed bamboo 
and forestregion on the eastern side of Kenia spoors and droppings of Bongo were 
secn at an altitude of about 2,700, in the same tract where the Hylocherus appeared 
1 Although Tomas plainly has stated that he has given this name in consequence of the bovine tail 
of the Bongo several authors wrongly spell Boocerus (!) as if the name referred to the horns! 
