6(3 THE SELOUS COr.LECTTON. 



roualeynei^ or 'Bushbnek of the Limpopo.' These Bushbucks 



are smaller than those found in the Cape Colony If we 



now take the Bushbucks fomid on the hanks of the Chohe, we 

 find that the adult male is of a very dark red colour, in places 

 merging into a deep brownish black, most beautifully spotted with 

 large white spots, there being as many as fifty on each side in 

 some individuals, and in some cases as man}^ as eight well-defined 

 white stripes besides. There is also a mane of white hair running 

 all down the back from the shoulder to the tail, about 3 inches in 



length, and which the animal can erect at pleasure " 



The Cape Bushbuck described in the above is the animal now 

 known as Tragelaphiis scriptus sylvaticiis. 



371 —19.7.15.396. October, 1887. Lo Magondi's, Mashonaland, 



Southern Rhodesia. 



372 —19.7.15.397. September, 1887. River Angwa, North 



Maslionalaiid, Southern Rhodesia. 

 373-374 —19. 7. 15. 398-399. July, 1879. South bank of Chobe River. 



CAPE BUSHBUCK. 



Tkagelaphus scriptus sylyaticus. 



Antilope sylvatica, Sparrman, Act. Holm. 1780, p. 197, pi. vii. ; Reisen 

 Guten Hoffnung, p. 517, pi. iii., 1784; English Transl. (Voyage 

 to Cape of Good Hope, etc.) vol. i. p. 270, vol. ii. p. 220, pi. vi., 1786 ; 

 French Transl. vol. i. p. 293, pi. iii. 



Tragelaphus sylvaticiis, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Tragelaphiis scriptus sy\vaticus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 389. 



Size as in ornatus, horns longer. General- colour darker, 

 blackish brown above and without longitudinal or transverse white 

 stripes on sides ; a few small white spots on haunches and 

 shoulders. Short-haired collar-band and face-markings as in the 

 Chobe race. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 400) : — length on 

 front curve 15f ; circumference 5f ; spread from tip to tip 4|. 



Typical locality, Groot Vadersbosch district, Cape Colony; 

 range includes Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, 

 Natal, and parts of Portuguese East Africa. 



This race is referred to by Selous in his paper published in the 



