MOUNTAIN REEDBUCK OR ROOI RHEBOK 219 



Mabubi, Tamulikan, Machabi, Sunta, and Chobi rivers, as well as 

 the tributaries of the Zambesi east of the Victoria Falls, and 

 throughout Mashonaland and Matabililand, rooi rhebok are still 

 abundant. Those from the Manica plateau, north of the Zambesi, 

 may be the East African race. 



The reedbuck discovered by Mr. Vaughan Kirby in the Lydenburg 

 range of the Transvaal departs from the ordinary type of the mountain 

 reedbuck in exhibiting a tendency to partial albinism. Whether this 

 peculiarity entitles it to be regarded as a distinct race (Cervicapra 

 fulvorufula subalpina} must, for the present, remain a moot point. 



A reedbuck from East Africa, described by Mr. Walter Rothschild 

 from a single skin as a distinct species, appears to be, at most, nothing 

 more than a local race of the rooi rhebok (Cervicapra fulvorufula 

 chanleri}. In the type specimen the nose shows a dark streak like the 

 one often seen in the rooi rhebok and common reedbuck. 



Length on Circum- .,.. .. ~,. T ... /-> 



front curve, ference. I 'P to Tip. Locality. Owner. 



4i 4^ Humansdorp . . F. Vaughan Kirby. 



-S-& 5s 5 ? I'- C. Keytel. 



-8 3j' 4^ Transvaal . . F. R. N. Findlay. 



7V 4 4^ ? Hon. Walter Rothschild. (Shot 



by F. C. Selous.) 

 -7f ... 2.7 Transvaal . . J. L. Drege. 



-72 4 34 Lebombo Range, S.A. Count E. Hoyos. 



-7i ? H. T. and A. H. Glynn. 



7l 4! 3 Zululand . . . A. II. Neumann. 



7i 5 3 Near Bloemfontein . R. Rankin. 



-7i 4^ 2! Mr. Justice Hopley. 



-7i 4i 5V Julius Jeppe. 



7 3i 4^ Zululand . . .A. Cameron. 



7 3.^ 4i{ ? H. E. Berry. 



-7 4vV 5l ? B. Senior. 



- Owner's measurements. 



