998 PROF. A. CABRERA OX A XKW AXTCLOPE [Juiie 14, 



Jiufikloes in the same district, whose colour is darkisli rufous, 

 with the lower poi-t.ions of the le^s rather lii^hter than the body. 



Although 1 am fully convinced (jf the distinctness of the small 

 Yala race, 1 do not propose to give it a name luitil a specimen 

 of the head of at least one of the sexes is available for the J>ritish 

 IVIuseum. A fuller account will lie found in the ' Field,' vol. cxv. 

 p. 1112, lUlU. 



4. On a new Antelojje and on the !Sj)anish Chamois. 

 By Prof. A. Cabrera, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received May 10, 1910.] 

 (Text-figure 1 49.) 



Among a great number of hunting-trojdiies obtained last winter 

 by the Spanish s})ortsman, i\Ir. llicardo de la Huerta, during an 

 expedition in British East Afiica, there are two Antelope heads 

 which seem to repi-esent a new form of J)((iiialisci(S. They belong, 

 indeed, to animals similar in size and colour to D. jiniela, but with 

 the middle part of the face not black, l)ut \K\\e whitish bufi". That 

 they ai'e not individual al)errations is demonstx-ated by the fact that 

 Mr. de la Huerta has met with two herds entirely composed of pale 

 blaze<l Topis — one on the Uasingishu plateau and another near 

 the Turkwell River. According to the natives, these antelopes 

 were also seen by the lloosevelt party, but no s})ecimens were 

 obtained. 



Without entering now into the question whether it is a true 

 species or only a local race of DamaUscus corriguin, I think this 

 form with whitish forehead needs a name, and I propose to call it 

 J)ai)ialisci(s phaJias * . 



I take this opportunity to describe and name also the Chamois 

 from the Cantabrian Mountains, X. Hpain, which is a very difterent 

 form from the Pyrenean one (IiNjiicapra rupicapra jyyrenaica 

 Bonap.), smaller in size and i'ed<ler in colour. 



Following are the brief descriptions of these two new animals. 



Damaliscus pjiAHUS, sp. n. 



Similar to J), jimela in size and in the colour of the body and 

 limbs, but with a pale whitish-l)ul}" l)laze (m the face, instead of 

 the black one common to the other forms of the corrKjum group. 

 In old males, accorditig to Mr. de la Huerta, the blaze becomes 

 ])ure white and alnK)st as well defined as in D. alhifrotis and 

 1). pi/<l(H'<l"^- 



llab. The north-western i)art of iJritish East Africa, east of 

 Mount Elgon. 



• P/ialios WHS, ixrordinp to Dr. Hidjri'wny, tliB Gri'ck niune for a ilark-coloured 

 hornf with n wliitc blaze from the top of tlie lieiid down to the nose. 



