372 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON HUNTEr's ANTELOPE. [June 18, 



Fisch. & Rchw. J. f. O. 1879, p. 337 ; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 

 1884, p. 390; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 115; Rcbw. J. f. O. 1887, 

 p. 46 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 245. 

 cj. Useri river, July 18. 



95. Vanellus speciosus. 



Soplopterus speciosus, Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 391 ; 

 id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 116 ; Rchw. J. f. O. 1887. p. 47; Matsch. 

 t. c. p. 138. 



Vanellus speciosus (Licht.), Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 22 1 . 



d $ . Kilimanjaro, swamps on the east side, June 24. 



4. Description of Hunter's Antelope. By P. L. Sclater, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



[Eeceived 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. fl. 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 Alcelaphus. It may be 

 characterized as follows : — 



Damalis hunteri. (Plate XLII.) 



Fusco-castaneus unicolor, in dorso paulo saturatior : linea inter 

 oculos, in 7nedio fronte ascendente, alba; oculorum amhitu et 

 auribus intus, necnon cauda et gastrceo medio albis : artubus 

 intus pallidioribus : cornubus nigris, rotundatis, fortiter annel- 

 latis, extrorsum et retrorsum curvatis, deinde linea fere paralleli 

 exsurgentibus ; apicibus Icevigatis vix convergentibus. Alt. tola 

 ad humeros circa 48'0, long. corp. 48'0, cauda lo'O, aurium 6'0, 



^ See P. Z. S. 1889, p. 58 ; and ' Field,' March 23, 1889 (vol. Ixxiii. p. 422). 



