238 MR. O. THOMAS OK NANOTBAGTTS LITINGSTONIANUS. [Mar. 14, 



The dimensions of Mr. Neumann's specimen, taken on the stuffed 

 animal, a fully adult male, were as follows : — 



Height at withers 348 mm. ( = 13'75 inches). Length of head 

 and body round curves, 596 ; ears from notch, 93 ; hind foot, with- 

 out hoof, 170 ; tail, 76. Length of body (chest to rump in a straight 

 line), 419. 



Skull — basal length, 111 ; greatest length, 124; greatest breadth, 

 59 ; gnathion to orbit, 60 ; muzzle in front of teeth, 32 ; length of 

 tooth-series, 38-5; palate, length, 71. 



Horns, length 87, circumference at base 50. 



Head of Nanotragus livingstonianus. 



In the ' Field ' for September last year ^ Mr. Neumann had 

 written an account of the distribution and habits of this Antelope, 

 and had there stated that its native Zulu name was " Inhlengane," 

 that its ordinary habitat was the bushy parts of the low country 

 between the coast and the Bombo range, and that the present 

 specimen, which had been killed on the Umkuzi River, represented 

 the extreme southerly limit of its range. ' Further north he had 

 heard of it in the neighbourhood of the Lower Limpopo and 

 Komati rivers ; and Mr. Thomas's present identification of it with 



1 'Field,' Ixxx. p. 368, Sept. 1892. 



