68 THE SELOUS COLLECTIO?*^. 



378-379 —19. 7. 15.403-404. October, 1896. Usutu River, Tongaland, 



Natal. 

 380-381 —19.7.15.405-406. Horns. September, 1896. Junction of 



Pongola and Usutu Rivers, Tongaland, Natal. 



ZAMBESI SITATUNGA*. 



L1MNOTEA.GUS SELOUSI. 



Tragelaphus speTcei, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 103, pi. xii. ; 1890, 



p. 590, pi. xlvii. 

 Tragelaphus selousi, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. v. p. 206, 1898. 

 Limnotragus selousi, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv. 



p. 157, pi. xciv., 1900. 



Distinguished from the Bushbucks and N^-ahi by the great 

 elongation of the hoofs. Size ahnost equal to that of tlie Nyala. 

 Horns from 30 to 35J inches in length. Ears smaller than in 

 Ti^agelaphus angasL Coat long and rather coarse. General 

 colour dirty yellow-ochre, without the white body stripes of the 

 Nj^ala f. Face markings somewhat similar, a large incomplete 

 white suborbital chevron and an indistinct white spot below eyes. 

 This species is easily distinguished from the other members of the 

 genus LiuDiotragus by the fact that the two sexes are alike in 

 general colour, whereas in spekei from the Victoria Nyanza and 

 spekei gratus from the Gabun the sexes are of different colours. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 409) : — length on 

 front curve 32| ; in straight line from point to base 27 ; circum- 

 ference 7| ; spread from tip to tip lOg. 



Typical localitj^ Zambesi Valley ; range, Zambesi Valley and 

 northwards through Northern Khodesia into the southern part of 

 the Belgian Congo. 



382 —19.7.15.407. 5 August, 1879. Lower Chobe River, near 



Linyanti. 



383 — 19.7.15.408. Horns. Killed by natives in swamps of 



Chobe River, near Linyanti (August, 1879). 



384 — 19. 7. 15. 409. Horns. Killed by Leopard in swamps of 



Chobe River (August, 1879). 



* Also spelt " Situtunga." 



t Selous records (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 753) having seen a foetal 

 specimen in 1877, and states that it was striped and spotted like the Chobe 

 Bushbucks. 



