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TRAGELAPHUS HAYWOooD! Thos.* 
Thos. Abstr. P. Z. 8. No. 21, p. 9, June 13, 1905. 
A large heavily-built member of the group of small species 
without a definite short-haired collar. Under surface darker 
than upper. 
Fur comparatively coarse and long throughout, the hairs of the 
back 35-40 mm. in length. General colour very dark, the nape 
black; the fore-quarters blackish brown (near ‘‘seal- brown”), passing 
into dark reddish brown (“ vandyke-brown”) on the middle back 
and deeper rufous (dark “ tawny”) on the rump. Sides gradually 
darkening downwards to the wholly black belly. Dorsal crest black 
as far as the withers, then whitish mixed with some black hairs. 
Three inconspicuous transverse whitish stripes on each side. No 
longitudinal bands, but a few white spots on the sides of the rump. 
Shoulders and proximal part of limbs deep black, succeeded by tawny 
below. (Feet unfortunately lost in the type.) Top of muzzle nearly 
black, with prominent interorbital whitish streaks nearly touching 
each other in the middle line. Forehead and crown deep 
ferruginous. Cheeks tawny ochraceous. ‘Two white spots on 
each side behind and below the eyes. Ears thinly haired, dull 
tawny brown with blackish edges; hairs of inner surface white. 
Chin and interramia white and a large throat-spot duller white; 
between this and the white chest-band the throat was glossy 
blackish, mixed with some tawny hairs. White axillary and 
inguinal patches present. Tail dark tawny, white below. 
Skull very large and heavy for one of the smaller members of 
the genus, much larger than in 7’. scriptus or sylvaticus. Median 
alatal notch rather farther forward than the lateral ones. 
Palatal foramina comparatively long. 
Horns also very powerful, thick and strongly ridged, much 
finer than those of any of the allied forms. 
skull dimensions of type :— 
Greatest length 265 mm.; basal length 247; greatest breadth 
112; muzzle to orbit 154; muzzle to front of p* 77; length of 
palatal foramina 36. Length of upper tooth-series 72, of three 
upper premolars 31. 
Horns: length mm straight line 400; on anterior ridge 470; 
greatest basal diameter 59; basal circumference 171. 
Hab. Nyeri, Kenya District, British Hast Africa, Altitude 
6000 feet. 
Type. Full-grown male. B.M. No. 5.5.16.3. Collected and 
presented by C. W. Haywood, Esq. 
- Mr. Oscar Neumann ~ had sorted the smaller species of 
Tragelaphus into two groups, characterised by the presence or 
absence of the peculiar collar of short hairs which had been so 
* [The complete account of the new species described in this communication 
appears here; but since the name and preliminary diagnosis were published in the 
‘ Abstract,’ the species is distinguished by the name being underlined.—Eprror. | 
+ SB. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 1902, p. 98. 
