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white eye-streak and of the white area on the side of the lower jaw. 

 Similar face - markings are displayed by the calves in the tan- 

 coloured coat. 



Although in the southern portion of its range found in the same 

 districts as the sable antelope, the present species has a much wider 

 geographical distribution, extending from the Vaal and the Orange 

 rivers to the Sudan and Abyssinia, and westwards to Angola, Nigeria, 

 and Senegambia. 



With such a wide range it is but natural to expect that the species 

 should present a certain amount of local variation ; and, as a matter of 

 fact, four such local races are now recognised. The first is the typical 

 southern race of South and Central Africa. Farther north — in British 

 and German East Africa — we come to the eastern race, which was 

 described by Dr. P. Matschie in the Sitr^ungs-Berichte Ges. Naturfo7'. 

 Berlm, 1898, p. 181, as Hippotragus langheldi, and on the same day 

 (November 15) by Mr. Oscar Neumann, in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society for 1898, p. 850, as H. rufopallidus. It appears, 

 however, that the former name is entitled to stand, as the actual 

 publication of the issue in which Mr. Neumann's race is described did 

 not take place till well on in 1899. The name of this race will 

 accordingly be H. equinus langJieldi. It is described by Mr. Neumann 

 as differing from the typical race by the absence of brownish or greyish 

 tints in the colouring, which is pale reddish, lighter in some examples 

 than in others, but never of the dark red characteristic of the western 

 race. The legs are, however, dark reddish, in some cases with black 

 markings ; the base of the tail and a portion of the rump are black ; 

 and the tufts on the ears are shorter than in the next race. This 

 eastern race is represented in the exhibition galleries of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) by a fine male, the gift of Lieut.-Col. C. 

 Delme-Radclyffe in 1904. The Sudani race, H. e. bakeri, which was 

 described in the year 1863 by Heuglin (as a separate species), appears 

 to be closely allied to the last, from which, as already mentioned, it 

 differs by the longer ear-tufts. Lastly, we have the western race, 

 H. e. ganibiajius, typically from Senegambia, named by Dr. P. L. 

 Sclater in the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1896, p. 983, 

 and more fully described by Mr. W. E. de Winton in the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History for 1899, ser. 7, vol. iv. p. 359, which, as 

 stated above, is distinguished by its deep red colour. This redness is, 

 however, more marked in young than in old specimens, the latter being 

 pale tawny, without any of the bluish grizzling of the typical race. 



The species is nowhere so common as the sable antelope. 



