68 THE SELOUS COf.LECTIOX. 



roualeynei] or 'Bushhuck of the Limpopo.' These Bushbucks 



are smaller than those found in the Cape Colony If we 



now take the Bushbucks found on the banks of the Chobe, we 

 find that the adult male is of a very dark red colour, in places 

 merging into a deep brownish black, most beautifully spotted with 

 large white spots, there being as many as fifty on each side in 

 some individuals, and in some cases as many as eight well-defined 

 white stripes besides. There is also a mane of white hair running 

 all down the back from the shoulder to the tail, about 3 inches in 



length, and which the animal can erect at pleasure " 



The Cape Bushbuek described in the above is the animal now 

 known as TragelapJius scriptus sylvaticus. 



371 19. 7. 15. 396. October, 1887. Lo Magondi's, Mashonaland, 



Southern Rhodesia. 



372 19.7.15.397. September, 1887. River Angwa, North 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 

 373-374 19. 7. 15. 398-399. July, 1879. South bank of Chobe River. 



CAPE BUSHBUCK. 

 TKAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS SYLVATICUS. 



Antilope sylvatica, Sparrman, Act. Holm. 1780, p. 197, pi. vii. ; Reisen 

 Guten Hoffnung, p. 517, pi. iii., 1784; English Transl. (Voyage 

 to Cape of Good Hope, etc.) vol. i. p. 270, vol. ii. p. 220, pi. vi., 1786 ; 

 French Transl. vol. i. p. 293, pi. iii. 



Tragelaphns sylvaticus, Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Tragelaphus scriptus sylvaticus, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 389. 



Size as in ornatus, horns longer. General colour darker, 

 blackish brown above and without longitudinal or transverse white 

 stripes on sides ; a few small white spots on haunches and 

 shoulders. Short-haired collar-band and face-markings as in the 

 Chobe race. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 400) : length on 

 front curve 15f ; circumference 5f ; spread from tip to tip 4|. 



Typical locality, Groot Vadersbosch district, Cape Colony; 

 range includes Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, 

 Natal, and parts of Portuguese East Africa. 



This race is referred to by Selous in his paper published in the 



