64 THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 



not extend to the coast, the Bushbuck of the Seyidle and Tanaland 

 Provinces being separated as a distinct race under the name 

 Tragelaphus scriptus olivaceus *. 



From examination of the material in the Musemii Collection 

 and views expressed by recent observers in the field it appears that 

 the forms described under the names tjcederi, hrunneus, and 

 eldomcd must be regarded as having been founded merely on 

 various colour phases of delamerei. The type localities of these 

 three forms are only a short distance from Sayer, the type locality 

 of delamerei^ the distances A^arying from 70 to 120 miles. 



369 —19.7.15.394. 5 January, 1903. Londiani Station, Uasin 



Gishu District, Kenya Colony. 



370 —19. 7. 15. 395. 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro, Kenya Colony. 



OHOBE BUSHBUCK. 

 Tragelaphus scriptus ornatus. 



Tragelaphus scriptus oryiatn^, Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. v. 

 p. 94, 1900. 



Size about as in tlie typical race, smaller than delamerei with 

 shorter horns. General colour above reddish brown, darker below ; 

 six to eight indistinct transverse white bands on sides of body. 

 Longitudinal white stripes absent, but spots below transvei*se 

 bands tend to form a lower longitudinal stripe, but not a well- 

 defined line as is found in the Senegal scrijyfus. A number of 

 large white spots on haunches and three or four on shoulders. 

 Face markings much as in delamerei, the white chevron mark in 

 front of eyes may be either well defined or entirely absent. Short- 

 haired collar and white chest band as in delamerei. A female 

 specimen in the Museum Collection, shot by Selous at Linyanti, 

 the type locality, has only three very indistinct white bands on 

 the sides and not nearly so many white spots on the haunches 

 as the adult males have. 



Horn measurements (No. 19.7.15.399): — length on front 

 curve 12^ ; circumference 5| ; spread from tip to tip ^^. 



Typical locality, Linyanti, Chobe Valley, Bechuanaland. Eange, 

 Chobe and Zambesi valleys extending southwards into Mashona- 

 land. 



* Heller. Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi. no. 13, p. 1, 1913. 



