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SOUTH AFRICAN MAMMALS 



young one during the spring and summer months. Mr. 

 Win. Campbell of Mount Edgecombe, Durban, informed 

 me that he caught a young one in Zululand in early 

 August, which is now in the Durban Zoo. 



TRAGELAPHUS SELOUSI. 



(Genus LYMNOTRAGUS, Trouessart.) Sitatunga. Water 



Koedoe. 

 Sitatunga (Barotse) ; Nakong (Lake Ngami). 



This Antelope is a geographical race or sub-species of 

 the East African Marsh Antelope (Tragelaphus spekei). 



FIG. 123. Sitatunga Earn. 



It is mouse-brown or dark grey-brown in colour, the 

 hair being fairly long and woolly, which together with 

 its awkward figure and stupid-looking face, gives the 

 animal an untidy appearance. There is a white V-shaped 

 mark on the face, a white spot on the chin, and one 



