288 Mr. G. Blaine on the Beedhucks. 



Ill this particular locality they were very numerous, over 

 two hundred being observed grazing together. 



The reedbucks of the mountain and those of the plain were 

 quite distinct from one another. 



Tiiese antelopes are not invariably found near water. I 

 have met them in the dry season scattered all over the great 

 alluvial plain that extends from the edge of the swamps at 

 Meshra-er-Rek westwards for some 70 miles into the 

 Bahr-el-Ghazal country. 



Precipitous dry and stony hillsides over which kudu range 

 are also the home of mountain reedbuck. With the exception 

 of forests and deserts it is evident that there are very few 

 localities in which one or another form of these antelopes 

 cannot exist, and consequently many local races of the genus 

 are still to be discovered and described. I have always 

 noticed slight degrees of difference in reedbuck from various 

 localities, and the uniformity of type in each particular case. 



With regard to the general geographical distribution of 

 this genus. S. Africa from the Cape as far as the extreme 

 northern limit of the Zambesi watershed on the Tanganyika 

 Plateau covers the range of Cervicapra aruudinum in the east, 

 while in the west it is said to extend to Angola. Central Africa 

 from Abyssinia southwards as far as the northern edge of the 

 Tano-anyika Plateau covers the range of C. hohor. C. re- 

 dunca, of which the type specimen was procured in the island 

 of Goree, off the coast of Senegal, by Adanson, and subse- 

 quently described by Buffon in 1764, I have reasons for 

 considering distinct from either of the above, based chiefly 

 upon the size of its teeth, which are smaller than those of any 

 other known species. I shall therefore place all the other 

 reedbucks of the Central-African group under the specific 

 name of hohor. 



There is a reedbuck i-esembling C. aruudinum found in 

 open country 25 miles N.E. of Wau, in the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 Province of the Sudan, of which I have a mounted head in 

 my own collection, and have seen another similar to it, pre- 

 sented by Captain P. E. Yaughan, in the B. M. collection. 



This reedbuck is not common, and 1 was unable to procure 

 a specimen of it on the first occasion that I visited this locality 

 in 1907. But I at once noticed the difference between it and 

 the numerous small red reedbuck of the bohor type that are 

 found not only on the alluvial plains to the east between 

 Wau and Meslna-er-Rek, but also along the river-valleys to 

 the west, viz. those of the Pongo and Chell. 



On my second visit, in 1910, 1 shot an adult male of this 

 species, and found that it resembled arundinum in its general 



