452 DR. GtJNTHER ON CERVUS EQUINUS. [JuUC 15, 



register'. Having examples of botli sexes we naturally expected 

 that the male would put on in the spring the chestnut breast and 

 full breeding-plumage portrayed by Mr. Gould in his figure of 

 that sex. Such, however, has not been the case ; little change has 

 occurred except the brightening of the colour ; and, as far as [ can 

 make out, the birds do not belong to A. imnclata at all, but to 

 A. gibberifrons, Miiller, a species closely resembling the female of 

 A. punctata, which has lately been ascertained to occur in Australia ^. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of an Antelope received from the 

 Gaboon, of which Mr. Wolf has prepared a coloured drawing, and 

 remarked that it appeared to belong to the female of an undescribed 

 species of Tragelaphus allied to Tvagelnphus spekii, which he 

 proposes to name 



Tragelaphus gratus, sp. nov. (Plate XLIV.) 



Fur long and coarse, as in T. spekii, of a deep rich chestnut, paler 

 on belly ; dorsal line dark ; chin, three spots on the sides of the 

 head, throat, wide band across the neck, inside of limbs, under 

 surface of tail, and three or four longitudinal series of spots on 

 each side of the body (sometimes running into lines) white ; feet 

 with a dark line in front ; hoofs much elongated, as in T. spekii. 



Length of skin from the tip of nose to base of tail 6 inches, tail 

 C, tarsus 8, ear 4. 



Obs. This fine Antelope is obviously nearly allied to T. spekii, 

 and belongs to the same division of the genus, characterized by the 

 long coarse hair and long tarsus and toes, which indicate aquatic and 

 marsh-loving habits. The generic term Ilydrotragus, Gray (Cat. 

 Rum. 1872, p. 49), should be perhaps employed for these two 

 species. The skin, which I now exhibit, was sent to Mr. R, "W. 

 lloulston, the Society's agent at Liverpool, by one of his corre- 

 spondents at Gaboon, who asked whether such an Antelope would 

 be required for the Menagerie. I have requested Mr. Roulston to 

 procure a skin and horns of the male animal, and hope to receive 

 them shortly. 



Dr. Giinther exhibited a series of horns of Cervus equinus (S. 

 Midler), collected by H. Brooke Low, Esq., in Sarawak. He 

 pointed out the variation in the spread of the horns and in the 

 direction and comparative length of the snags, and expressed his 

 entire agreeme^it with the view held by Blyth (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, 

 p. G59), viz. that the Bornean Sambur was hut a small race of the 

 Indian Cervus aristotelis, at least as far as he was enabled to judge 

 from the horns and skulls. He also exhibited for comparison a pair of 

 horns with frontlet of an adult Sambur killed in Bengal, which, as 

 regards size, were even inferior to those of the Borneau Deer. 



> See P. Z.-S>-i^9, p. 827. 



2 See Dr. EullJ^jj^irds of New Zealand,' p. 251. 



