THE SELOUS COLtECTiO^^ 57 



and Taveta District to north-east of Mt. Kilimanjaro, passing 

 southwards along the Ilii't Valley into Tanganyika Territory. 



313 —19.7.15.338. 1 April, 1912. Northern Giiaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



314 —19.7.15.339. 10 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro 



District, JCenya Colony. 



315 —19.7.15.340. January, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



316 —19. 7. 15. 341. 30 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



317 —19. 7. 15. 342. 15 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



318 —19. 7. 15. 343. 13 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



319 —19.7.15.344. 14 February, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro 



District, Kenya Colony, 



Subfamily ORYGIN^. 



GEMSBUCK. 

 Oetx gazella. 



Capra gazella, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 69, 1758 ; ed. 12, vol. i. 



p. 96, 1766. 

 Antilope oryx, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii. pp. 16 and 61, 1777. 

 Cerophorus (Oryx) oryx, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 

 Onyx onyx. Gray, Medical Repository, vol. xv. p. 307, 1821, misprint for 



Oryx oryx. 

 Oryx oryx, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. xi. p. 204, 1835. 

 Oryx capensis, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 139. 

 Oryx gazella. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 156, 1843 ; Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii. p. 232, 1846 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 134 ; 



Knowsley Menagerie, p. l7, 1850; Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 105, 



1852 ; Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1872 ; Hand-List Ruminants 



Brit. Mus. p. 104, 1873. 



The Gemsbuck is the largest member of the genus, the height 

 at shoulder about 48 inches. Hair long and rough, very different 

 to the short-haired coat of the East African Beisa. Dark markings 

 on face very prominent, the frontal or nose-patch communicating 

 with dark eye-stripe and continued on to throat ; dark throat 

 marking without any median light patch or stripe, such as always 

 occurs in 0. heisa annectens. Horns longer than in the East 



