OKKOT11AGINJ-; 



The distributional area comprises the mountainous 

 districts of north-eastern Africa, exclusive of Somaliland ; 

 also Abyssinia, from Erythnea to the Hawash Valley, and 

 thence eastward to Harar; while it may also include the 

 country between the Hawash Valley and Lake Eudolf. 



73. 2. 24. 15. Skull, with horns, and skin. BogosLuxl, 

 Abyssinia, Purchased, 1873. 



73. 2. 24. 14. Skin, female. Same locality. 



Same history. 

 73. 2. 24. 21. Skull, with horns. Same locality. 



Same history. 



44. 5. 14. 37. Skull, with horns, and skin. Abyssinia. 



Purchased, 1847. 



C. Oreotragus oreotragus aureus. 



Oreotragus oreotragus aureus, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, 

 no. 13, p. 7, 1913. 



Typical locality Mt. Lololohwi, north of Guaso-nyiro, 

 B. E. Africa. 



Type in U. S. National Museum. 



Provisionally recognised as a race, diagnosed as follows : 

 General colour golden yellow, lighter than in saltatrixoides ; 

 limbs much paler than body ; hoof-spot large ; crown of head 

 rufous, in marked contrast to body-colour. 



13. 10 9. 1-3. Three skulls and skins, female, Guaso- 

 iiarok, northern Guaso-nyiro. The difference in colour 

 between the body and legs is very slight, but the rufous 

 crown is well-marked. 



Presented ~by F. Russell Roberts, Esq., 1913. 



D, Oreotragus oreotragus schilling-si. 



Oreotragus schillings!, O. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1902, 

 p. 172 ; Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 487, 1910. 



Oreotragus saltator schillings!, Lydekker, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 167, 1908, Suppl. p. 9, 1911. 



Oreotragus oreotragus schillings!, Hollister, Smithson. Misc. Collect. 

 vol. Ivi, no. 2, p. 3, 1910. 



Typical locality northern German East Africa. 



Type apparently in the collection of Mr. C. G. Schillings. 



