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colouring as the West- African T. scri'plns tt/picus, being a dark 

 cliostniit-ie<l, passinjjj into black interiorly and on the h-'t^s, 

 and marked with as many as sevi-n or eight transverse wljite 

 stripes, six spots on tlie shouUler and many on haunch<'.s ; a 

 line ot" white spots passing longitudinally above belly, but 

 never a trace of upper longitudinal white stripe running 

 jiosteriorly from shoulder. 



Young male pale reddish yellow, with s])Ot.s and stripes 

 much more t'aintly marked. 



Adult female snwiller than male, bright chestnut in colour, 

 marked with only three or four faint white stripes, and with 

 fewer spots than in the other sex. 



Loc. Linyante on the Chob(* lliver {F. C. Selous). 



Ti/pe: stuffed male in British Museum, no. 81. 4. 20. 4. 



Subspecies fasciatu.o, nov. 



{ = Tragelaphu8 dccula of Swayne and Ghika ; nee decula, 



Ruppell.) 



Somewhat intermediate in character between T. scriptus 

 iypicits and the East- African Bushbuck which passes as 

 T. scriptus Roualeynei. 



Gciu'ial colour reddish yellow , brighter on the hind-quarters 

 and distinctly blacker on the dorsal region, where the hair 

 assumes a dusky greyish-brown line. Body marked with 

 four or five very distinct, mostly broad, white stripes on each 

 side ; a row of white s])0ts above the belly and a i&w on the 

 hind-quarters. No upper white band passing backwards from 

 shoulder. Neck darker than in T. scriptus t)/picus nnd scriptus 

 Bouahynei , the entire neck being covered with a coating of 

 short sdky greyish-brown hairs of the same length as those 

 of the head. 



Young male redder in colour than adult and equally 

 strongly marked with white. 



Loc. Sen Morettu, on the Webbe River, Somaliland {Oapt. 

 Sicat/ne). 



Type: skin of male in British Museum, no. 94, 2. 21. 7. 



Trafj htphus Delamerei, sp. n. 



About the same size as 7\ scrij)tus. Head ruddy brown 

 on forehead, with a blackish band extending down muzzle ; 

 cheeks tawn, with two small white spots ; no white stripe 

 running inwards from the corner of the eye ; edge of upper 



