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Of these fifteen local types of small bushbucks, Nos. 4, 5, and 

 1 1 were named by Mr, R. I. Pocock in the Amials and Magazine of 

 Natural History for 1900 (ser. 7, vol. v. pp. 94 et seq.), and Nos. 

 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 by Mr. O. Neumann in the Sitzungs-BericJite 

 Ges. Naturfor. Berlin, 1902, pp. 93 et seq. No. 6 was named by 

 Dr. E. Lonnberg in Arkiv fiir Zoologi, vol. ii. No. 15, 1905. The others 

 are earlier, the earliest of all being T. scriptiis. If all the fifteen 

 forms are regarded as races of a single species (a view by no means 

 universally accepted), the names will stand as T. s. bor, T. s. dama, 

 T. s. decula, T. s. delaniei'ei, T. s. fasciatus, T. s. knutsoni, T. s. typicus, 

 etc. etc. 



On the subject of the mutual relationships of all these local 

 variations — apart from the question whether they be regarded as 

 local races of a single species or as representing two or more distinct 

 species — we may quote, with some slight verbal alterations, from the 

 paper by Dr. Lonnberg, to which reference has been already made : — 



" To group all the different geographical forms naturally, according 

 to affinity, seems at present very difficult, although it is easy to see 

 that some are more closely allied than others. Neumann has tried to 

 divide them into two groups according to the condition of the neck, 

 namely, whether it is well-haired or short-haired. . . . To the former 

 [well-haired] group he refers T. sylvaticus, meneliki, delamerei, and 

 probably decula and nigrinotatus ; to the latter [short-haired, or 

 collared, group] T. scriptus, phaleratus , bor, dama, vmlticolor, masaicus, 

 and roualeyni. This grouping of the races by means of the charac- 

 teristic mentioned does not, however, seem to be correct, so that the 

 following alterations must be made. T. sylvaticus is stated to have a 

 collar of short hair round the neck, and this is also the case with 

 delamerei. But, on the other hand, T. bor is declared by Thomas to 

 have a well-haired neck. 



" The group of bushbucks with well-haired necks thus appears 

 to contain T. knutsoni, T. bor, T. decula, and T. meneliki. In all these 

 the dorsal crest is black. T. nigrinotatus belongs probably to the 

 same group, but as the male is not yet known, it is difficult to discuss 

 its affinity. The races with more or less short-haired necks have 

 partially or wholly white dorsal crests, except T. multicolor, in which 

 the crest is black. 



" A grouping of the forms in such a manner seems, however, to 

 depend more upon conditions of environment than upon natural 

 affinity. Neumann, for instance, has indicated something like this 

 when he expresses the opinion that bushbucks with well-haired necks 



