a2 MR. E. BLYTH ON TWO NEW ANTELOPES. [Jan. 14, 
bubalis in being fully as large as the Hartbeest, and in having 
black markings in front of all four feet above the hoofs. In the 
Museums of Amsterdam and of Leyden there are mounted specimens 
of this animal, which have hitherto been supposed to exemplify the 
true B. bubalis (which those Museums do not contain), and of 
which I repeat that I lately saw a living adult at Antwerp of the 
usual very inferior size. I have also recently seen several frontlets 
of the larger race, some of which were received (together with front- 
lets of Oreas derbianus) from the west coast of Africa; but the 
Boselaphus bubalis, var. 1, of Dr. Gray (P. Z. 8. 1850, p. 139), which 
I take to refer to the same animal, is stated by him to have been 
brought by Mr. Louis Fraser from Tunis. I suspect that it is chiefly a 
western race, though more or less diffused also in the region tenanted 
by the smaller and more familiarly known B. budalis ; while a third 
and eastern representative of the same form exists in the Antilope 
lichtensteini of Dr. Peters, which I only know from his figures and 
description of it (Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique, 
p. 190, tt. 43, 44). 
By the kind permission of Mr. H. Ward, taxidermist, of Vere 
Street, I am enabled to exhibit a pair of frontlets (evidently male and 
female) of what I shall now designate as Boselaphus major, received 
from the west coast of Africa, and also a frontlet of B. bubalis (male) 
for comparison ; and at the same time I exhibit a characteristic skull 
of the Hartbeest. There is a good pair of frontlets of B. major in 
the collection of Alfred Denison, Esq., which I refer to because that 
of the male retains the skin of the forehead with its hair on, the 
latter being of a bright chestnut hue where it is black in the Hart- 
beest. So far as I can perceive, the horns of the three North-African 
species are similar in shape, those of B. major being only distin- 
cuishable by their superior size; and all may be readily told from 
those of the Hartbeest by the difference at the base when viewed in 
front, the horns of the latter diverging in the form of the letter V, 
those of the others in the form of the letter U. The specimen (such 
as it is) of B. major in the national collection is only a skin without 
horns or hoofs, 
Another animal to which I would call the attention of the Meet- 
ing is the Kudu, figured by Sir Andrew Smith, in his ‘ Zoology of 
South Africa,’ under the name Damalis kudu (both sexes of it), as 
distinguished from the ordinary large and familiarly known Kudu, the 
best figure of which, to my knowledge, is that by Sir W. Cornwallis 
Harris in his ‘ Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South 
Africa,’ pl. 20. The one is described to measure 4 feet in height 
at the shoulders, the other 5 feet. ‘The male of the large species is 
adorned with a copious fringe of long hair down the front of the neck, 
of which the mature male of the other shows not a trace. There is 
also a difference in the character of the markings of the body, which 
is more recognizable to the eye than capable of satisfactory descrip- 
tion. The large species is the Condoma of Buffon (Hist. Nat. 
tome xii. p. 30], and t. xxxix.) and of authors in general. Dr. 
Riippell, however, informs us that the Abyssinian Kudu is one-third 
