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with a tendency to spotting on the hind part of the flanks of the 

 smaller species. Both species have a mane and dorsal ci'est, at 

 least in the males ; but while the larger kind has none, the Lesser 

 Kudu cairies one white gorget on the throat and another on the 

 chest. The tail is of moderate length and not very bushy. 



In the Bushbuck group the females are frequently — although 

 by no means invariably — brighter coloured and more profusely 

 striped and spotted than the males ; the markings on the body, 

 when fully developed, comprising both stripes a,nd spots. The 

 males, at any rate, have a dorsal crest ; and there are often two 

 gorgets on the throat and chest, although these ai-e reduced to one 

 in the Nyala, The tail is in most cases relatively long and more 

 bushy than in Kudus. 



The conformation of the horns affiliates Mr. Buxton's Antelope 

 to the Bushbuck group {Tragelaphus *), from all the other 

 members of which it is distinguished by its superior size. From 

 the Kyala, which makes the nearest approach in this respect, 

 Tragelaj)hus huxtoni differs in the (reported) identity of the coloin- 

 in the two sexes, in the shoi'ter coat and less bushy tail of the 

 male, the presence of two white gorgets on the throat and chest, 

 the absence of any marked difference in the general colour of the 

 lower part of the legs from that of the body, and also in the more 

 open spiral formed by the more massive horns. 



In the type specimen (PI. XVI.), which, as already mentioned, 

 is an approximately full-grown but young buck, the horns form 

 about one complete turn, and have the general characters of those 

 of the ISTyala, although relatively heavier, and diverging much 

 more outwardly, with a very open spiral. They are obliquely 

 ridged at the base, and the long smooth terminal portion is worn 

 yellow at the tip. The length along the outer curve is 37 inches, 

 the basal girth 9| inches, and the tip-to-tip interval 21 inches. 



The coat is rather long and coarse, its genei'al colour being 

 speckled brown-fawn, passing into dull ta,n on the sides of the 

 face, and becoming darker on the fi'ont surface of the muzzle, and 

 chocolate-brown on the forehead above the white chevron, which 

 is not very conspicuous. The under- parts are lighter, but on the 

 front of the fore-legs and the lower part of the hind pair the tuft 

 becomes considerably darker. There is a short dark brown mane 

 on the neck, continued backwards as a mingled brown and white 

 dorsal crest. The bushy tail is white beneath. The ears, which 

 are much of the same type as those of the Nyala, are of moderate 

 width, bluntly pointed at the tip, and tubular for a considerable 

 distance at the base ; most of the long hairs on the inner edges 

 being white, as is also much of the inner surface of the outer 

 margin. 



The white markingsinclu.de a not very distinct chevron between 

 the eyes, the usual patches on the sides of the muzzle and chin, a 

 pair of spots on each side of the face below the eye, and a smaller 



* Limnotragtis I regard as a subgenus. 



