THE SELOUS COLLECTION. 57 



and Taveta District to north-east of Mt. Kilimanjaro, passing 

 southwards along the llift Valley into Tanganyika Territory. 



313 19.7.15.338. 1 April, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



314 19.7.15.339. 10 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro 



District, Kenya Colony. 



315 19.7.15.340. January, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



316 19. 7. 15. 341. 30 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



317 19. 7. 15. 342. 15 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



318 19. 7. 15. 343. 13 March, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro Dis- 



trict, Kenya Colony. 



319 19.7.15.344. 14 February, 1912. Northern Guaso Nyiro 



District, Kenya Colony, 



Subfamily ORYGIN^E. 



aEMSBUCK. 

 OKTX UAZELLA. 



Capra gazella, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 69, 1758 ; ed. 12, vol. i. 



p. 96, 1766. 



Antilope oryx, Pallas, Spicil. Zool. fasc. xii. pp. 16 and 61, 1777. 

 Cerophorus (Oryx) oryx, BlainviUe, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 

 Onyx onyx, Gray, Medical Repository, vol. xv. p. 307, 1821, misprint for 



Oryx oryx. 



Oryx oryx, Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. xi. p. 204, 1835. 

 Oryx capensis, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 139. 

 Oryx gazella, Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 156, 1843 ; Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xviii. p. 232. 1846 ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 134 ; 



Knowsley Menagerie, p. 17, 1850 ; Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 105, 



1852 ; Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1872 ; Hand-List Ruminants 



Brit. Mus. p. 104, 1873. 



The Gemsbuck is the largest member of the genus, the height 

 at shoulder about 48 inches. Hair long and rough, very different 

 to the short-haired coat of the East African Beisa. Dark markings 

 on face very prominent, the frontal or nose-patch communicating 

 with dark eye-stripe and continued on to throat ; dark throat 

 marking without any median light patch or stripe, such as always 

 occurs in 0. leisa annectens. Horns longer than in the East 



