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Game Animals of Africa, p. 375, 1908, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



ser. 8, vol. vi, p. 224, 1910. 

 Helladotheriurn tigrinum, Johnston, Cornish's Living Animals, vol i, 



p. 270, 1901. 

 Okapia liebrechtsi, Major, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, pp. 73, fig. 7, 



and 342, fig. 63, La Belgique Coloniale, no. 9, 1902, p. 533; 



Lankester, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1907, vol. i, p. 129. 

 Okapia erikssoni, LanJcester, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. x, 



p. 417, 1902. 



Typical locality Semliki Forest, East Central Africa. 



The typical and only known species. 



Shoulder-height in females about 5 feet 4 inches. Sides 

 of face pale puce; crown, backs of ears, neck, and greater 

 part of body plum-colour; sides of buttocks and upper 

 portion of limbs transversely barred with black and white 

 stripes of varying width ; shanks mainly white, with black 

 fetlock rings, and a vertical black stripe on anterior surfaces 

 of front pair, which may extend over the knees, or may be 

 replaced there by a white knee-cap, and in some examples 

 joins the fetlock ring. 



Distribution co-extensive with that of genus. 



1. 8. 9. 53. Two strips of skin ("bandoliers") from 

 the hind-quarters. Semliki Forest. Types. Figured by 

 Lankester, Monograph of the Okapi, pi. i, figs. 3 and 4.* 



Presented ly Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., 1901. 



1. 8. 9. 51. Skin, mounted, and skull (fig. 48), female. 

 Semliki ; collected by Karl Eriksson. Type of 0. erikssoni. 

 Skin figured by Lankester, op. cit. pi. i, fig. 1 ; skull pi. iii, 

 fig. 1, pi. viii, fig. 2, and xiii, fig. A. Same history. 



1. 8. 9. 52. Skull, immature. Semliki. Figured by 

 Lankester, op. cit. pi. xv, fig. J. Same history. 



6. 12. 27. 1. Skin and skeleton, immature, mounted. 

 Ituri Forest ; collected by Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. 

 Skin figured by Lankester, op. cit. pi. i, fig. 2 ; skull pi. iii, 

 fig. 2, pi. vii, fig. 2, and pi. xiii, fig. B. Skin presented by 



Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton, skeleton purchased, 1906. 



7. 7. 8. 264. Skin, mounted, and skull, immature. 

 Welle Valley, on border of Belgian Congo; collected by 

 the Alexander-Gosling Expedition. Skull figured by 



* Keferences to earlier figures of this and the following specimens 

 are given in the " Monograph." 



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