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basal girth, with a tip-to- tip interval of 21 inches, but in an 

 older specimen the corresponding dimensions are respectively 

 39, 9|, and 22 inches. 



10. 11. 29. 1. Skin, subadult, mounted. Sahatu Moun- 

 tains, Arusi Gallaland. Type (fig. 26). 



Presented ~by Ivor Buxton, Esq., 1910. 

 12. 12. 2. 1. Skull, with horns. Same locality. 



Presented ly J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1912. 

 14. 5. 7. 1. Two body-skins. Same locality. 



Presented try Messrs. Rowland Ward, Ltd., 1914. 



2. SUBGENUS LIMNOTRAGUS. 



Hydrotragus, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 49, 1872, nee 



Fitzinger, 1866. 

 Limnotragus, Sclater and Thomas* Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, 



pp. 90 and 108, 1900; PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 930; 



Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, no. 8, p. 16, 1912. 



Hoofs elongated, backs of pasterns bare. 



The range includes the Congo Valley and the neighbour- 

 hood of the great lakes of southern and eastern Africa, 

 extending northwards to Tanganyika and the Bahr-el-Ghazal, 

 and southwards to the Chobi and Zambesi. 



IV. TEAGELAPHUS (LIMNOTEAGUS) SPEKET. 



Tragelaphus spekei, Sclater, in Speke's Journal of Discovery, p. 223, 

 1863, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 103, pi. xii, 1880, p. 452, 1883, 

 p. 34 ; Heuglin, Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 319, 1869 ; Peters, Mitt. Ak. 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 484 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 485, 1878, 

 p. 884; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 83, 1887; 

 Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 388 ; Flower and Lydekker, 

 Study of Mammals, p. 347, 1891 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 p. 155, 1892 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 254, 1893 ; Jackson, 

 Big Game Shooting (Badminton Libr.), vol. i, p. 311, 1894; 

 Matschie, Sdugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, p. 135, 1895 ; Pou- 

 sargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 78, 1897 ; Roth- 

 schild, Novit. Zool. vol. v, p. 206, 1898 ; Gedge, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 476, 1899 ; Letcher, Big Game N. E. Rhodesia, 

 p. 203, 1911 ; Roberts, Ann. Transvaal Mus. vol. iv, p. 106, 1913. 



Eurycenis (Hydrotragus) spekii, Gray, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 49, 1872. 



* In this portion of the work the place of Mr. Thomas was taken 

 by Mr. Pocock. 



