668 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



(Thomas, 1903, p. 290.) Record length of horns, 4& inches (Ward, 

 1935, p. 85). 



This mainland representative of C. ogilbyi (known only from 

 Fernando Po) ranges from Liberia to the Cameroons. 



According to Biittikofer (1890, vol. 2, p. 377), it appears to be 

 common in the forests of Liberia. 



"Specimens . . . are recorded ... as having been procured on 

 the Du Queah and Farmington Rivers in Liberia by Biittikofer 

 and Stampfli. . . . 



"In the Cameroons the present species has been met with by the 

 German collectors Preuss and Morgan, as recorded by Herr Mat- 

 schie, and in Togoland, on the same authority, by Kling and Butt- 

 ner." (Sclater and Thomas, 1895, vol. 1, pp. 162-163.) 



"Very little is known of it to European sportsmen" (Bryden, 

 1899, p. 223). 



Lydekker and Blaine (1914, vol. 2, p. 85) record specimens from: 

 Fanti and Usshur, Gold Coast; Cape Dikundscha, Cameroons; and 

 the Oban district, southern Nigeria. 



Cape Colony Klipspringer. Klippspringer (Ger.) 



OREOTRAGUS OREOTRAGUS OREOTRAGUS (Zimmermann) 



Antilope Oreotragus Zimmermann, Geogr. Geschichte, vol. 3, p. 269, 1783. 

 ("The highest cliffs at the Cape [of Good Hope].") 



SYNONYM: Antilope saltatrix Boddaert (1785). 



FIGS.: Schreber, Saugthiere, pi. 259, 1785; Steedman, 1835, vol. 2, pi. facing 

 p. 9; Jardine, Naturalists' Libr., Mamm., vol. 7, pi. 30, 1842; Bryden, 

 1899, pi. 6, fig. 8; W. L. Sclater, 1900, vol. 1, p. 167, fig. 47; Lydekker, 

 1908, pi. 6, fig. 8; Selous, 1914, pi. 55; Pocock, 1937, p. 674, fig. 



This little antelope is easily shot and disappears rapidly before 

 settlement. Some apprehension is felt concerning its survival in the 

 Cape Province. 



General color speckled yellow and brown; hair very coarse, flat- 

 tened in section, wavy, and thick; chin, belly, and inner side of 

 limbs whitish; margin of ears black; tail very short. The animal 

 walks on the tips only of the vertical hoofs. Height at shoulders, 23 

 inches. Horns short and straight, the basal third ringed; female 

 hornless. (W. L. Sclater, 1900, vol. 1, pp. 166-168.) Record length 

 of horns of 0. o. oreotragus, 4^ inches (Ward, 1935, p. 108) . 



The range of this subspecies is here provisionally considered re- 

 stricted to the Cape Province, British Bechuanaland, and the south- 

 ern portion of South-West Africa (Great Namaqualand) . 



"Once extremely abundant in the Cape Colony, it is now daily 

 becoming more rare the venison being deservedly reputed among 

 the first that the country affords, whilst the elastic hair is sought 

 above all other materials for the stuffing of saddles. . . . Found 



