1867.] 



DR. J. MURIE ON AN AFRICAN ANTELOPE. 



It may be mentioned that Capt. Speke gives an illustration (op. 

 cit.) of the N'samma Antelope, which appears to be the native name 

 in Uganda for the Kohus shiy-sing. ^ t» • 



Sir Samuel Baker, in his interesting 'Albert Nyanza, Great Basin 

 of the Nile' (18(i(), vol. ii. pp: 15, 10), tells of an Antelope shot by 

 him near the Asua River, 3° 12' W., which he calls the Mehedehet 

 Antelope. He savs the Mehedehet weighs about 500 lb., stands 

 13 hands high, and has rough brown hair like the Sambur Deer of 

 India. This description in some respects agrees with the Sing-sing, 

 although the woodcut of the head given is not in perfect correspond- 

 ence with Speke's or the present figures. 



Fis;. 2. 



Skull and liorii of Hurnier's Sing-sing, in profile. 



In conclusion, the foregoing remarks may be said to lead to the 

 inference that the Antelope to which the name of Kobus siny-sing 

 has been assigned appears to range in Africa from Senegambia on the 

 west to Abyssinia on the east, and to be found, with slightly vary- 

 ing characters, as far south as Uganda, close upon the equator. 



In some senses the Waterbuck {Kobus ellipsiprymnus) would 

 seem to be its representative in South Africa, and the Nile specimens 

 or variety of Sing-sing- be a kind of intermediate link between its 

 North-west-African congeners and this allied species of the southern- 

 most end of the continent. 



()\\ the other hand, further tracing analogies, the Lechc {.Idenotu 



