1890.] 



EAST-AFRICAN REED-BUCK. 



605 



In Sir J. Willoughby's ' East Africa and its Big Game,' p. 289 ' , 

 Mr. Hunter alludes to this East-African Reed-buck in the following 

 words : — 



" This Antelope obtained by us differs from the South-African 

 one, and will probably prove to be a new species ; the horns in this 

 are thicker and more bent forward at the tips. It is found in the 

 early morning and evening feeding near the edges of reedy swamps, 



Fig. 2 



Skull of Gervicapra bohor. 

 ;7, jugo-lacrymal suture; o, lower edge of infraorbital rim. 



and when disturbed immediately runs into the rushes. It was very 

 common round a large swamp near Mikunduni, in the Masai country, 



' In the same list (p. 290) Mr. Hunter mentions a Duiker from Kilimanjaro, 

 alt. 10,000 ft., with remarkably dense and long fur. I believe this to be a 

 climatic variety of Cephalojihus yrimmii. 



Proc. Zool. Soc 1890, No. XLI. 41 



