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ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 77, 1887; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. 

 ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 71, 1897. 



Adenota lechee, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 97, 1852 ; Gerrard, 

 Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 237, 1862. 



Heleotragus leche, Kirk, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 658. 



Onotragus lechee, Gray, Cat. Euminants Brit. Mus. p. 17, 1872, 

 Hand-List Euminants Brit. Mus. p. 88, 1873. 



Cobus leechi, BucUey, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 201. 



Cobus lechee, Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 760, A Hunter's Wan- 

 derings in S. Africa, p. 220, 1881 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 p. 90, 1892 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 728 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 149, pi. xlii, 1896 ; Roth- 

 schild, Powell-Cotton 's Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, p. 466, 

 1902. 



Kobus lechee, Nicholls and Eglington, Sportsman in South Africa, 

 p. 42, 1892. 



Cobus leche, Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 225, 1893, Great and 

 Small Game of Africa, p. 269, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 218, 1908; W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, 

 p. 189, 1900 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 207, 1910. 



Cobus lechi, Selous, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 299, 1899. 

 Cobus lechwe, Rothschild, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, p. 237. 



LECHWE, LECHE, or LICHI. 



Type of Onotragus. 



Typical locality Zonga Valley, near Lake Ngami. 



Size intermediate between that of the waterbuck and 

 that of the kob, the shoulder-height being about 40 or 

 41 inches. Hair coarse, rather long, and rough, that of 

 middle of back directed backwards ; hind surface of pasterns 

 bare. General colour light fulvous ; under-parts, from chin 

 downwards and backwards, white ; area above shoulders, 

 nape of neck, and region round eyes coloured like back ; 

 fronts of whole of fore-legs and those of hind-legs from the 

 hocks downwards, with the exception of a broad white band 

 above hoofs, black ; tail slender, with a black terminal tuft, 

 just reaching level of hocks. Horns long, moderately slender, 

 sublyrate in form, with an imperfect double, or sigmoid, 

 curve ; fine specimens measure from 29 to 33 J inches in 

 length, with a girth of from 7f to 9, and a tip-to-tip interval 

 of from 18 (in one instance 15) to 27 inches. 



The distributional area extends from Zarnbesia to Barot- 

 siland (North-west Ehodesia) and Nyasaland, and westwards 

 to Angola. 



