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are tawny and the nape slatey grey. The so-called C. robertsi of 

 Mozambique (p. 153 of the text), with which, as I have suggested, C. 

 n. vassei is identical, forms the third race (C, n. robertsi), distinguished 

 by its larger size, paler colouring, and larger ears ; the general colour 

 being tawny ochre, with the under-parts paler. Lastly, the Nyasa 

 C. n. bradshawi, while agreeing in size with the preceding, differs by 

 the still greater paleness of the colouring, the under-parts being dirty 

 white. 



THE KLIPSPRINGER 



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The Masai race of this species (Oreotragus saltator scJiillingst) is 

 distinguished by the general presence of horns in the female. In 

 1911 Capt. W. H. Wilkin forwarded to the British Museum the skin 

 and skull of an immature horned female of this race killed by himself 

 the preceding September on the Anala river, in British East Africa, 

 about twelve miles from the German boundary (about i45 / S. X35 E.). 

 Capt. Wilkin, who also shot a second and older female, states that on 

 the Anala all the female klipspringers appeared to have horns, so that 

 he gave up shooting them on account of his inability to distinguish 

 bucks from does. On the other hand, he states that a sporting friend 

 shot a female klipspringer near the junction of the Guaso Nyero and 

 the Guaso Narok which was hornless. This, however, was not improb- 

 ably an individual variation, as the locality is too near the centre of 

 the range of schillingsi to make it likely that a second race should 

 occur there, and it is only reasonable to suppose that some females of 

 that race may be destitute of horns. 



Our knowledge of the range of the klipspringer was extended in 

 1911 by the discovery that the species inhabits the mountains of 

 Northern Nigeria. The first information on this point was afforded 

 by Dr. Porteus, who presented the skull of a buck to the British 

 Museum ; but this was supplemented by a letter from Mr. M. Hyatt, 

 in which it was stated that the writer had killed three specimens in the 

 Naraguta district. I have named the Nigerian race O. a. portensi 

 (Proc. ZooL Soc. 1911, p. 960). The skull is characterised by its 

 great width. 



According to information supplied by Mr. E. A. Hamilton 

 klipspringers inhabit the mountains of Angola. 



