ROAN ANTELOPE 



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Distribution. From north of the Vaal and Orange Rivers through East 

 and East Central Africa to the Sudan and Abyssinia, and westward 

 to Angola, Nigeria, Gambia, and Senegambia. The name H. equinus 

 rufopallidus has been applied to the East African race, while the 

 Abyssinian form is known as H. e. bakcri, and the West African as 

 H. e. gambianus. Gordon Gumming shot the roan antelope just 

 north of the Orange River in Griqualand West, where it has for 

 many years been exterminated. Nowhere abundant, the species is 

 most plentiful in Mashonaland and neighbouring districts ; in the 

 Transvaal it is only sparsely distributed. South of the Orange 

 River this group of antelopes was formerly represented by the 

 much smaller blaauwbok, or blue antelope (H. leucophceus], long 

 since exterminated. 



The following specimens belong to the typical form : 



Length on Circum- 



front curve. ference. 



-39* 



-35 9i 



34l 9 



32^ ss 



32.7 9 



T.2 IO 



8 



31 



IO 



7 

 9 



10 

 S; 



Tip to Tip. Locality. 



Tokwe River, South 



Rhodesia 

 8A South Africa 



7 Okavango Valley 



Northern Matabililand 

 9^ Mashonaland 

 91 Do. . . . 



12 Hanyani Valley . 

 13! Mashonaland 



5r, South Africa 



ii Mashonaland 



I2i Nyasaland . 



II:} Angolaland 



13 Mashonaland 



7^ Mashonaland 

 13} South Africa 

 ili Portuguese Fast Africa 



9 Matabililand 



- Owner's measurements. 



Owner. 



South African Museum 



(R. C. Camp). 

 A. Ohlsson. 



Sir H. J. Goold-Adams. 



A. C. Fountaiue. 



Julius Jeppe. 



\V A. Simpson Ilinchliffe. 



F. C. Selous. 



Major A. St. H. Gibbons. 



Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 



F. C. Selous. 



Major P. \V. Forbes. 



F. P. Cooper. 



J. A. Jameson. 



Mr. Justice Hopley. 



F. C. Selous. 



G. Richards. 



F. Yaughan Kirby. 

 Count F. Hoyos. 



