AND SOME ANTELOPES OF ANGOLA. 333 



The call of this Zebra is a low, snuffling neigh oi^ whinny, 

 quite unlilce the oft-repeated hysterical " bweha-bweha" of Bonte 

 Quagga. It also makes a loud squeal. 



The flesh is fine-grained, with white fat and sinews, and by no 

 means bad eating with a slightly sweet taste. That of the Bonte 

 Quagga is coarse, rank, and unpalatable, in colour dai'k red with 

 yellow fat and sinews. 



Below are the body measurements in inches of two a.dult 

 stallions : — 



Head and body * 99>i 92 



Tail 19i 21 



Mean height at shoulder 52 54| 



Girth behind shoulder 59| 60^ 



Length of head from crown to lip . . . 28 27 



Girth of neck at throat 30 30 



,. chest 46 47 



-P, /length 9 9 



-^^'^ jbreadth 4 4 



Antidorcas. 



On preparing to work out the Angolan Springbucks, the first 

 difficulty to be encountered was the usuallack of material. Apart 

 from the Angolan series, only two complete skins with skulls 

 could be found in the B. M. collection, and one of these was a 

 stufi:ed specimen. The remainder consisted of stuffed heads from 

 the Selous collection and a few ancient relics without histories. 

 There is, moreover, very little literature giving any detailed 

 description of " this Antelope for the reason that its highly- 

 specialized character so readily distinguishes it from all others. 



Harris t gives a careful description, and Brooke J follows with 

 another careful and accurate description, upon which I base the 

 differences found in the Angolan series. 



Even from the scrappy material available it is evident that 

 two distinct races exist, the most obvious character of the one 

 being the imperfect development of the horns in the female, 

 which are small, thin, and indistinctly annulated, and of the 

 other the fully-developed horns in the female, which are long, 

 lyrate, and strongly annulated. 



Other difi'ei-ences appear in the skulls, to which reference will 

 be made later, bat it is first necessary accurately to define typical 

 euchore. 



The best examples to be found representing anything ap- 

 proaching a series are four specimens from the Orange River 



* Very old stallion. 



t ' Wild Animals of Southern Africa,' 1840, pi. iii. Does with very slender 

 horns either straight or capriciously bent, exhibiting a few indistinct annuli at their 

 base. 



X p. Z. S. 1872, p. 550. Horns in both sexes, but very small in female. Sah. 

 S. Africa. 



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