NEW ANTELOPES AND CARNIVORES FROM BRITISH 



EAST AFRICA 



By EDMUND HELLER 



NATURALIST, SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN EXPEDITION 



Further study of the collections of African mammals in the United 

 States National Museum, secured by expeditions under the direction 

 of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Paul J. Rainey, and Dr. W. L. Abbott, 

 has resulted in the discovery of the new races described in the pres- 

 ent paper. 



TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS OLIVACEUS, new subspecies 

 Swahili Bushbuck 



Type from Maji-ya-Chumvi, British East Africa ; adult male, Cat. 

 No. 182267, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; collected by Edmund Heller, Dec. n, 

 191 1. (Original No. 2580.) 



Characters. — Dorsal coloration of male grayish-olive without any 

 rufous suffusion ; sides and hindquarters marked by white spots ; legs 

 seal-brown ; neck short-haired without evident collar ; dorsal mane 

 white. Female cinnamon, the sides of the body crossed by 6 to 8 

 white transverse bars ; white spots on lower sides and on hind quar- 

 ters. Skull with enlarged bullae. Body size smaller than Tragela- 

 phus scriptus delamerei of the Kenia highlands. 



Coloration of adult male {type). — Body grayish-olive sparingly 

 lined by buffy, midline of back with a crest of longer white tipped 

 hair ; middle of body crossed by an indistinct white bar ; lower sides 

 with a line of irregular white spots ; hindquarters spotted by several 

 conspicuous white spots. Breast dark seal-brown without the olive 

 tinge of the back ; belly white. Forelegs seal-brown with a white 

 bar on inside of thighs ; another back of knee and a white spot 

 on inside from knee to pasterns ; front of pasterns marked by two 

 large white spots. Hind legs with a white spot behind the hock 

 and a broad white stripe on inside of leg from the hock to the pas- 

 terns, the latter with two large white spots in front as in the forelegs. 

 Tail bushy, the hair above and on sides olive-brown with a narrow 

 streak of white on underside; hair at tip indistinctly blackish; neck- 



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