THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 43 



CHANLER'S REEDBUCK. 



REDUNCA JFULVORUFULA CHANLERI. 



Cervicapra chanleri, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. ii. p. 53, 1895. 



Cervicapra fulvorufula chanleri, Jackson in Bryden, Great and Small 



Game of Africa, p. 317, 1899. 



Redunca chanleri, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 722, 1905. 

 Redunca fulvorufula chanleri, Roosevelt, African Game Trails, p. 487, 



1910. 



Rather smaller than the typical race and paler in colour ; a 

 dark nose stripe is sometimes present. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 249) : length on 

 front curve 6 ; circumference 3| ; spread from tip to tip 4. 



Typical locality, Mountains East of Mt. Kenya, Kenya Colony ; 

 range includes the greater part of Kenya Colony from the 

 Tanganyika Territory border along the Rift Valley to Lake 

 Rudolf and Southern Abyssinia. 



222-225 19. 7. 15. 247-250. Kenya Colony. 



WATERBUCK. 



KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS. 



Antilope ellipsiprymnus, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 47. 

 Kobus ellipsiprymnus, A. Smith, Illustr. Zool. S. Africa, Mamm. pt. xii. 

 pis. xxviii. and xxix., 1840. 



Size large, height at shoulder from 48 to 53 inches. General 

 colour brownish grey, underparts white ; a well-defined white 

 elliptical band on rump, extending down on each side to flanks. 

 Horns large and very distinctly ringed, good horns measuring 

 from 30 to 36| inches in length. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 252) : length on 

 front curve 3(M ; circumference 10 ; spread from tip to tip 22. 



Typical locality, between Latuku and the west coast, South 

 Africa. The species is found throughout the greater part of 

 South Africa north of the Limpopo. The Common Waterbuck 

 also occurs as far north as Somaliland and Kenya Colony ; several 

 geographical races have been described from Kenya Colony and 

 Tanganyika Territory, and no doubt the East African specimens 



