672 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



0. o. saltatrixoides (Riippell). 1 ABYSSINIAN KLIPSPRINGER. 

 Range: Ethiopia, Eritrea, and eastern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



0. o. somalicus Neumann. 2 SOMALI KLIPSPRINGER. Range: British 

 Somaliland. 



0. o. porteousi Lydekker. 3 NIGERIAN KLIPSPRINGER. Range: north- 

 ern Nigeria. 



Zulu Suni 



NESOTRAGUS LIVINGSTONIANUS ZULUENSIS Thomas 



Nlesotragus] Living stonianus zuluensis Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 



ser. 7, vol. 2, p. 317, 1898. ("Northern Zululand"; more specifically, 



"Umkuzi River" (Thomas, 1893, p. 238).) 

 FIGS.: Thomas, 1893, p. 238, fig.; Sclater and Thomas, 1896, vol. 2, p. 57, 



fig. 25; Lydekker, 1908, p.' 187, fig, 41; Lydekker and Elaine, 1914, vol. 2, 



p. 165, fig. 17; Roberts, 1936, pi. 12. 



This little antelope is nowhere common, it is much harassed by the 

 natives, and it apparently depends for survival upon the protection 

 it receives in several game reserves (Roberts, 1937, p. 783) . 



General color above rich rufous, verging on chestnut; flanks and 

 legs far brighter and more rufous than in the Zanzibar Suni (Nesotra- 

 gus moschatus) ; upper side of tail darker than back, under side 

 white. Height at shoulder, 13J inches. Horns thick and heavy, 

 strongly but closely ridged to within an inch of their tips ; length up 

 to about 4J inches. (Thomas, 1893, pp. 237-238 ; Sclater and Thomas, 

 1896, vol. 2, p. 55; Ward, 1935, p. 104.) 



Lydekker and Elaine state (1914, vol. 2, p. 164) that "the range 

 extends from Zululand to Tette, Zambesia." It is doubtful, however, 

 if it extends quite so far to the north, since the type locality of the 

 northern subspecies, N. I. living stonianus, is Shupanga, on the lower 

 Zambesi. The following are among the localities from which speci- 

 mens are recorded by these authors (pp. 164-165) : Coguno, Inham- 

 bane, Portuguese East Africa; Gazaland, P. E. A.; Pongola Valley, 

 Zululand. 



Neumann, who secured the type specimen, writes (as quoted in 

 Sclater and Thomas, 1896, vol. 2, p. 56) : "I have known of the 

 existence of this Antelope in South-eastern Africa for many years, 

 but have only lately had an opportunity of obtaining a specimen. 

 ... This one was killed in North-eastern Zululand, which district 



1 A[ntilope\ saltatrixoides Riipp[ell], in Wagner, Schreber's Saugthiere, suppl. 

 vol. 5, p. 412, 1855. (Abyssinia.) 



2 Oreotragus somalicus Neumann, Sitz.-ber. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 

 1902, nos. 7/8, p. 174, 1902. (Sheikh, Golis Range, British Somaliland.) 



s Oreotragus saltator porteusi [misspelling for porteousi} Lydekker, Abstr. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, no. 98, p. 38, 1911. ("Northern Nigeria"; later re- 

 ported by Lydekker and Elaine (1914, vol. 2, p. 131) as "Duchi n'Wai Range, 

 Zaria, Northern Nigeria/') 



