THE SELOTJS COLLECTION. 95 



Rupicapra rupicapra, Weber, Saugetiere, p. 674, 1904. 

 Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra, Lydekker, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. vol. i. p. 181, 1913. 



Of the following series the heads from Bavaria are two of the 

 oldest specimens in the Collection, having been shot by Selous in 

 the autumn of 1870, about a year before his first visit to South 

 Africa. 



The best horns are those of No. 19. 7. 15. 56, which measure as 

 follows : length on front curve 11; circumference 3f ; spread 

 from tip to tip 4^. 



Typical locality, Switzerland ; the range includes the Alps and 

 Apennines, eastward through the Tirol, the Carpathians, and north 

 part of the Balkan Peninsula to the Caucasus. 



462-466 19.7.15.56-60. 12 December, 1899. Mount Tomassi, 

 Southern Carpathians, Transylvania - 



467 19. 7. 15. 61 (female). 12 December, 1899. Mount Tomassi, 



Southern Carpathians, Transylvania. 



468 19.7.15.62 (young male). 17 October, 1870. Untersberg, 



Bavaria. 



469 19.7.15.63 (female). 28 October, 1870. Untersberg, 



Bavaria. 



Family ANTILOOAPEID^). 



PRONGHORN, OR PRONGBUCK. 

 ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA AMERICANA. 



Antilope americana, Ord, Guthrie's Geography, 2nd Amer. ed. vol. ii. 



pp. 292 and 308, 1815. 

 Antilocapra americana, Ord, Journ. Phys. vol. Ixxxvii. p. 149, 1818 ; 



vol. Ixxxviii. p. 314, 1819 ; Oken's Isis, 1819, p. 1106. 

 Antilocapra americana americana, Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 393, 



1912. 



Horns differ from those of the Bovidce in being forked and, 

 as in the Cervidce, being cast annually. 



Height at shoulder about 36 inches. The typical race differs 

 from the Mexican Pronghorn, mexicana, in its richer colour and 

 larger mane. The narrowness of the blackish border of the ears 



