728 ON MAMMALS FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. [NoV. 21, 



known to us as the Sing-Sing (C. sing-sing), from the vernacular 

 name bestoM-ed upon it by Mr. Bennett in 1832 (see Eep. Comm. 

 Zool. Soc. 1332, p. 5). This name was adopted and published by 

 Dr. Gray in 1843 (ListMamm. p. 159), but no description appears 

 to have been attached to the name till 1850, when it was fully 

 described in ' Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie,' p. 15. 

 In the meantime, however, the name of Antilo^oe unctnosa had been 

 given to it by Laurillard (D'Orbiguy's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. i. 

 p. 622) in 1847. I think, therefore, that this species Mill have to 

 be called Cobus unctuosus. 



The Sing-Sing does well in captivity, and I have seen many 

 specimens of it in the Continental gardens, where it has frequently 

 bred. A certain locahty for it is the Eiver Gambia, where the 

 Knowsley specimens were obtained for the Derby Menagerie by 

 Whitfield. 



8. Cobus lechee. 



One flat skin, very like those of C. vardoni, but at once recog- 

 nizable by the black stripes on the front legs and the more widely 

 spread horns. 



9. Cobus vardoni (Livingst.) ; Sclater, P. Z.S. 1892, p. 98. 



Three flat skins and two pairs of horns of this species, con- 

 cerning which and C. lechee see Mr. Sharpe's notes. 



10. Cervicapra arundinum (Bodd.). 



A skull in Mr. Crawshay's series must be referred to C. arun- 

 clinum or a nearly allied form. 



11. ^ptceeos melampus. 



In Mr. Crawshay's series are a skull and a skin of this Antelope, 

 which, according to Mr. Sharpe, is often confounded with the 

 Lechee and Vardon's Antelope under the common name " Mswala." 



12. HiPPOTRAGUS EQUINUS. 



Five heads and horns (4 male, 1 female) of the Roan Antelope, 

 which was not included b/ Mr. Crawshay in his list of the 

 Antelopes of Nyasaland, but certainly occurs in several localities 

 within the Protectorate. Mr. Crawshay also sends a skin ot" a 

 young male. 



In the Shire Highlands Mr. B. L. Sclater tells me the Roan is 

 equally common with the Sable Antelope. He saw them both on 

 the Trochila plains between Blantyre and Milangi (see Geogr. 

 Journ. i. p. 414), and Mr. Steblecki, a planter on the Chola 

 plateau, told him both were common there. 



13. Tragelaphus scriptus roualeyni. 



A flat skin of a foetal specimen, probably of this species. See 

 P. Z. S. 1893, p. 507. 



