40 THE SELOtS COliliECTIO^^ 



absent. Size medium, height at shoulder 29 to 30 inches. Horns 

 ahuost vertical, sharply pointed, and with well-marked rings on 

 the basal portion ; good horns are from 8 to 11| inches in length. 

 Coat woolly ; general colour greyish fawn with dark patch on chin. 



The horns of the mounted head in the Collection measure 

 8^ inches in length, and 2| inches from tip to tip. 



Typical locality, Cape Colony ; the species is fairly widely 

 distributed in South Africa, extending into Southern Khodesia, but 

 is not found north of the Zambesi. 



198 —19.7.15.223. April 1895. Fairfield, near Caledon, Cape 



Colony. 



199 —19.7.15.224. Horns. Caledon District, Cape Colony. 



KIETBOK, OR KEEDBITCK. 

 Redtjnca (Eleoteagus) akundinum arunuinum. 



Antilope arundinuni, Boddaert, Elenchus Anini. p. 141, 1785. 



Antilo2ie eleotragus, Schreber, Siiugthiere, pi. cclxvi., 1787. 



Antilope (Redunca) eleotragus, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 



vol. V. p. 337, 1827. 

 Redunca eleotragus, A. Smith, S. African Quart. Journ. vol. ii. p. 210, 



1834. 

 Eleotragus isahellinus, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 165, 1843. 

 Eleotragus arundinaceus. Gray, Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. I, vol. xviii. 



p. 232, 1846 ; ser. 2, vol. viii. p. 144, 1851 ; List Osteol. Brit. Mus. 



p. 57, 1847; Knowsley Menagerie, p. 12, 1850; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, 



p. 126; Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 91, 1852; Cat. Euminants Brit. 



Mus. p. 18, 1872 ; Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 88, 1873. 

 Cervicapra arundinacea, Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 758; 



A Hunter's Wanderings in S. Africa, p. 216, 1881. 

 Cervicapra arundinum, Flower and Lydekker, Study of Mammals, p. 340, 



1891. 

 Redunca arrmdinnm, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 721, 1905. 

 Redunca (Eleotragus) arundinum, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 203, 1914. 

 Redunca arundinum arundinum, Lydekker and Blaine, Cat. Ungulate 



Mamm. Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 206, 1914. 



The larger size and longer and much heavier horns distinguish 

 this species from all the other members of the genus Bediaica. 

 Height at shoulder about 36 inches. Horns in fine specimens, 

 from 15 to 17| inches in length. 



