186 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Eurycerus spekii, Gray, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 119, 1873. 

 Limnotragus spekii, Sclater and Thomas, Boole of Antelopes, vol. iv, 



p. 151, pi. xciii, 1900; Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 486, 



1910. 

 Tragelaphus speekei, 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1905, 



p. 90. 

 Tragelaphus (Limnotragus) spekei, Lydeklcer, Great and Small Game 



of Africa, p. 335, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 313, 1910, ed. 7, p. 312, 1914; Matschie, Beroff. Inst. 



JagdJcunde, vol. ii, p. 179, 1913. 



Typical locality Victoria Nyanza; the range is co- 

 extensive with that of the genus. 



Size medium ; shoulder-height from about 32 to 42 inches. 

 Male with a heavy fringe on throat and under-parts, a long, 

 coarse coat, and horns (fig. 28) of the short, open-spiralled 

 type of T. angasi, but frequently developing more than two 

 complete turns of a spiral; general colour varying from 

 greyish brown to rich nearly chocolate brown, with a gorget 

 on throat and another on chest, and face and limb markings 

 generally similar to those of T. angasi ; sexes unlike or like 

 in colour. 



The skull has the small orbits and narrow lachrymals of 

 T. angasi. 



The four local races are distinguishable as follows : 



A. Sexes unlike in colour. 



a. Size smaller T. s. spekei. 



b. Size larger. 



a'. Frontal chevron small T. s. grains. 



b'. Frontal chevron large T.s.albonotatus. 



B. Sexes alike in colour, size larger T. s. selousi. 



A. Tragelaphus spekei spekei. 



Tragelaphus spekei spekei, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. vol. v, p. 206, 



1898. 

 Tragelaphus spekei typicus, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 314, 1910, ed. 7, p. 313, 1914. 

 (?) Tragelaphus (Limnotragus) spekei ugallae, Matschie, Beroff. Inst. 



JagdJcunde, vol. ii, p. 179, 1913. 



Typical locality the Victoria Nyanza ; the range extending 

 nearly to the Zambesi. 



Size small, shoulder-height about 36 inches; sexes 

 dissimilar in colour. General colour nearly uniform 



