200 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



along the curve, with a basal girth of from 10 to 14, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval of from 19 to 48 inches. 



In females the general colour is nearly uniform fawn, 

 rather darker above than below ; in the young the colour is 

 redder than in the adult, with the white markings more 

 pronounced. 



The skull differs from that of the preceding species by 

 the narrower and more triangular lachrymal vacuity and the 

 greater development of the masseter knob. 



The named races are distinguishable as follows : 



A. Stripes very numerous, usually 9 or 10 S. s. strepsiceros. 



B. Stripes fewer, usually 6 to 8 S. s. bea. 



c. Stripes still fewer, usually 4 or 5, but occasionally 7 S. s. cJiora. 



A. Strepsiceros strepsiceros strepsiceros. 



Strepsiceros strepsiceros strepsiceros, PococJc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, 



vol. i, pp. 140, 141. 

 Strepsiceros capensis typicus, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, 



p. 319, 1910, ed. 7, p. 317, 1914. 



Typical locality Cape Colony. 



Stripes numerous, usually nine or ten. 



The range probably extends as far north as the Zambesi. 



42. 12. 6. 12. Skin, mounted. S. Africa. 



Presented ~by the Earl of Derty, 1842. 

 44. 4. 1. 1. Skin, mounted. S. Africa. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1844. 



46. 6. 15. 31. Skin, mounted, female, and skull 

 (46. 11. 20. 5). Cape Colony. Purchased (Warwick), 1846. 

 46. 6. 1. 4. Skin, mounted, young. Cape Colony. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1846. 



48. 7. 11. 1. Skull, with horns. Probably South 

 African. Purchased, 1848. 



60. 4. 22. 1. Skull, with horns, immature. S. Africa. 



Purchased (Stevens), 1860. 



91. 7. 20. 1. Frontlet and horns, immature. Interior of 



Natal. Purchased (Stevens), 1891. 



93. 4. 2. 1. Skin, mounted. Macloutsie Valley, Upper 



Limpopo. . Presented ty F. C. Selous, Esq., 1893. 



