372 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON HUNTER’S ANTELOPE. [June 18, 
Fisch. & Rehw. J. f. O. 1879, p. 337; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 
1884, p. 390; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 115; Rehw. J. f. O. 1887, 
p- 46; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 245. 
3. Useri river, July 18. 
95. VANELLUS SPECIOSUS. 
Hoplopterus speciosus, Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 391; 
id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 116; Rehw. J. f.O. 1887, p. 47; Matsch. 
é. c. p. 138. 
Vanellus speciosus (Licht.), Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr.p. 221. 
S$ 2. Kilimanjaro, swamps on the east side, June 24, 
4. Description of Hunter’s Antelope. By P. L. Scuarsr, 
M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 
[Received June 18, 1889.] 
(Plate XLII.) 
At the meeting of this Society held on the 12th of February last 
I exhibited specimens of a very fine new Antelope, recently discovered 
by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, F.Z.S., in Eastern Africa, and proposed to 
name it after its discoverer Damalis hunteri’. I have now had 
time to make a closer examination of Mr. Hunter’s specimens and to 
complete my description of this interesting species, of which I 
exhibit a water-colour sketch, kindly prepared for us by Mr. Wolf 
from one of the skins (Plate XLII.). 
As will be at once manifest from an inspection of the drawing 
and the specimens themselves, Hunter’s Antelope belongs to the 
genus Damalis, if this be kept separate from Alcelaphus, being allied 
in most points of structure to the Korrigum or Senegal Hartebeest 
(Damalis senegalensis). But it has the frontal part of the skull 
slightly more elongated than in D. senegalensis, and in this respect 
shows a divergence towards the genus dAlcelaphus. It may be 
characterized as follows :— 
DaMALis HUNTERI. (Plate XLII.) 
Fusco-castaneus unicolor, in dorso paulo saturatior: linea inter 
oculos, in medio fronte ascendente, alba; oculorum ambitu et 
auribus intus, necnon cauda et gastreo medio albis: artubus 
intus pallidioribus : cornubus nigris, rotundatis, fortiter annel- 
latis, ectrorsum et retrorsum curvatis, deinde linea fere paralleli 
exsurgentibus ; apicibus levigatis vix convergentibus. Alt. tota 
ad humeros circa 48°0, long. corp. 48°0, caudeé 15:0, aurium 6:0, 
1 See P. Z.S. 1889, p. 58; and ‘ Field,’ March 23, 1889 (vol. Ixxiii. p. 422). 
