18 THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 



57 19.7.15.83. 4 December, 1876. Near Goqui Eiver, 



Khama's Country, Bechuanaland. 

 58-59 19.7.15.84-85. April, 1888. Near Meesa, Khama's 



Country, Bechuanaland. 

 60 ^ 19.7.15.86 (female). 13 February, 1879. Batlanarma, 



east border of Kalahari. 



LICHTENSTEIN HARTEBEEST. 



ALCELAPHUS LICHTEXSTEINI. 



Antilope lichtensteini, Peters, Mitth. Ges. nat. Freunde, 18 Dec. 1849 ; 



Reise nach Mossambique, Saugeth. vol. i. p. 190, pis. xliii., xliv., 1852. 

 Alcelaphus lichtensteini, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 243, 



1862. 



Size much as in the Lelwel Hartebeests, height at shoulder 

 about 48 inches. Face shorter, the frontal region not markedly 

 elongated. Horns mounted on a short and very broad pedicle, 

 stouter and shorter than in the foregoing forms; good horns 

 measure from 20 to 23 inches in length along the front curve. 

 General colour brownish buff, rather redder on the back; chin, 

 front of lower part of legs, and tail-tuft black. Rump nearly as 

 pale in colour as in caama. 



Of the four males in the Collection No. 19. 7. 15. 87 possesses 

 the finest horns, measuring as follows : length on front curve 19 ; 

 circumference 12| ; spread from tip to tip 4|. The females carry 

 very much smaller horns, the largest in the following series being 

 No. 19. 7. 15. 91 : length on front curve 14| ; circumference 8 ; 

 spread from tip to tip 4. 



Type locality, Tette, Mozambique ; range includes Mozambique, 

 Southern and Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and parts of Tanga- 

 nyika Territory. 



Selous * gives the following account of the distribution of this 

 species : " This fine antelope, whose range is now known to extend 

 over large areas of country to the north of the Zambesi in Central 

 and East Central Africa, as well as over a considerable part of 

 South-East Africa to the south of that river, was first discovered 

 by the German naturalist, Dr. Peters, in the neighbourhood of 

 Sena on the lower Zambesi, and by him named after his compatriot, 

 the traveller Dr. Lichtenstein. South of the point where 



* Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 160, 1899. 



