1895.] 



ME. P. L. SCLATEB ON THOMAS'S ANTELOPE. 



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African Antelopes in the first volume of ' Big Game Shooting,' 

 in the Badminton Library (p. 296), this Antelope had been named 

 '■'■ Kohus Tcob" probably from a mounted specimen of it in the 

 British Museum having been so labelled. In Herr Matschie's 



Head of Cohus thomad, <? . (From Mr. Gredge's specimen.) 



recently published volume on German-East-African Mammals 

 (p. 126) it had been also referred to the West-African Kob. But 

 Mr. Thomas and Mr. Sclater had quite agreed that this deter- 

 mination was wrong, the West-African Kob being a much smaller 

 animal. 



