NEOTRAGIN^ 137 



III. OUEEBIA NIGEICAUDATA. 



Scopophorus montanus, Qray, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 7, pi. v, 1850, 



nee Cretzsclunar. 

 Nanotragus nigricaudatus, Brool-e, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 874, 



pi. Ixxv ; Garrod, ibid. 1877, p. 11 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 



p. 81, 1892 ; LydeJcleer, Horns and Hoofs, p. 219, 1893. 

 Neotragus nigricaudatus, Sclater, List Anim. Zool. Gardens, p. 145, 



1883. 

 Ourebia nigricaudata, Sclater and Thomas, Boole of Antelopes, vol. ii, 



p. 23, 1895 ; Alexander-, From Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 392, 



1907 ; Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 882. 

 ■Oribia nigricaudata, LydelcTcer, Great and Small Game of Africa, 



p. 239, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 171, 1908; Ward, 



Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 180, 1910. 



Typical locality Gambia. 



Size relatively small; height at shoulder about 21 inches. 

 ■General colour greyish fawn ; ear-patch large ; upper surface 

 of nose dusky ; tail with a large terminal tuft. Length of 

 hind-foot 10, of ear 3| inches. There may be a triangular 

 blackish patch behind the horns. 



The range includes the open districts of Gambia and 

 Senegambia. 



76. 2. 30. 3. Skeleton, with horns, and skin. Gambia; 

 collected by C. B. More, Esq. Type. 



Purchased [Zoological Society), 1876. 



76. 2. 4. 2. Skin, female. West Africa. 



Presented hy the Zooloyical Society, 1876. 



99. 6. 15. 15. Skull and skin, female. Gambaga. 



Presented hy Capt. W. Giffard, 1899. 



10. 2. 17. 1. Head-skin, immature female. Bekel 

 District, Senegal. Presented hy Capt. H. S. Topping, 1910. 



10.2.17.2. Skull, with horns, immature. Same locality. 



Same history. 



11. 6. 10. 106. Skin. Upper Gambia. 



Presented hy G. Feriwiek Oicen, Esq., 1911, 

 8. 12. 18. 3. Skin, mounted. Senegambia. 



Presented hy F. Russell Roherts, Esq., 1908. 

 51. 12. 2. 6. Skull and skin, female. "West Africa. 



Purchased (Zoological Society'', 1851. 

 5. 5. 10. 13. Skin. Wase, ISTorthern Nigeria. 



Presented hy Br. H. K. W. Kumm, 1905. 



