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colouring as the West-African T. scriptus ty/n'ctis, being a dark 

 chestnut-red, passing into black interiorly and on the legs, 

 and marked with as many as seven or eight transverse white 

 stripes, six spots on the shoulder and many on haunches ; a 

 line of white spots passing longitudinally above belly, but 

 never a trace of upper longitudinal white stripe running 

 posteriorly from shoulder. 



Young male pale reddish yellow, with spots and stripes 

 much more faintly marked. 



Adult female smaller than male, bright chestnut in colour, 

 marked with only three or four faint white stripes, and with 

 fewer spots than in the other sex. 



Loc. Liny ante on the Chobe River (F. C. Selous). 



Type', stuffed male in British Museum, no. 81. 4. 20. 4. 



Subspecies /asc^'a<«5, nov. 



{ = TrageIaphus decula of Swayne and Ghika ; nee decula, 



Riippell.) 



Somewhat intermediate in character between T. scriptus 

 typicus and the East- African Bushbuck which passes as 

 2\ scriptus Eoualeynei. 



General colour reddish yellow, brighter on the hind-quarters 

 and distinctly blacker on the dorsal region, where the hair 

 assumes a dusky greyish-brown hue. Body marked with 

 ibur or five very distinct, mostly broad, white stripes on each 

 side ; a row of white spots above the belly and a few on tiie 

 hind-quarters. No upper white band passing backwards from 

 shoulder. Neck darker than in T. scriptus typicus and scriptus 

 Roualeyjiei, the entire neck being covered with a coating of 

 short silky greyish-brown hairs of the same length as those 

 of the head. 



Young male redder in colour than adult and equally 

 strongly marked with white. 



Loc. Sen Morettu, on the Webbe River, Somaliland {Gapt. 

 Swayne). 



Type : skin of male in British Museum, no. 94. 2. 21. 7. 



Trag laphus Delamerei, sp. n. 



About the same size as T. scriptus. Head ruddy brown 

 on forehead, with a blackish band extending down muzzle ; 

 cheeks fawn, witli two small white spots ; no white stripe 

 running inwards from the corner of the eye ; edge of upper 



