EEDUNCINJi: 205 



1850, p. 126, Cat. TJngtdata Brit. Mus. p. 91, 1852, Cat. Rumi- 

 nants Brit. Mus. p. 18, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 88, 1873 ; Qcrrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 138, 1862 ; 

 Kirlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 657 ; Drummond, Large Game ojF 

 S. Africa, p. 397, 1875 ; Bryden, Kloof and Karroo, p. 297, 1887 ; 

 Bocage, J. 8oi. Lisboa, ser. 2, vol. v, p. 28, 1890. 



Reduncaisabellma,Dar. multiannulata, caffra, and algoensis, Fiizinger,- 

 Sitzher. h. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. lix, pt. 1, p. 169, 1869. 



Cervioapra arundinacea, Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 758, A 

 Hunter's Wanderings in 8. Africa, p. 216, 1881 ; Crawshay, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 653; W. L. Sclater, Cat. Mamm. Ind. 

 Mus. pt. ii, p. 164, 1891 ; Lorenz, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vol. ix, 

 Notizen, p. 61, 1894. 



Eleotragus eleotragus, JentinTc, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. ix, p. 172, 1887. 



Cervicapra aruudinum. Flower and Lydelther, Study of Mammals, 

 p. 840, 1891 ; Ward, Records of Big Came, p. 93, 1892, ed. 6, 

 p. 215, 1910; Nicolls and Eglington, Sportsman in S. Africa, 

 p. 36, 1892 ; Lydehher, Horns and Hoofs, p. 227, 1893, Great and 

 Small Game of Africa, p. 305, 1899, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 555, 

 Field, vol. cviii, p. 778, 1906, Game Animals of Africa, p. 223, 

 1908 ; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 728 ; Thomas, ibid. 1894, 

 p. 146 ; Rendall, ibid. 1895, p. 358 ; Matschie, Sdugethiere 

 Deutsch-Ostafrika, p. 127, 1895; Sclater and Thomas, Book of 

 Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 157, pi. xliii, 1897 ; W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. 

 Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 194, 1900 ; Pococh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, 

 p. 913 ; Letcher, Big Game N.F. Rhodesia, p. 198, 1911 ; Blaine, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. xi, p. 289, 1913 ; Hamilton, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1913, p. 537. 



Cervicapra tliomasinaB, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 429, pi. xxvi ; 

 Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. iv, p. 227, 1900. 



Redunca aruudinum, Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., Suppl. p. 721, 1905 j 

 Lonnberg, Arkiv Zool. vol. v. no. 10, p. 5, 1909. 



Redunca thomasinae, Trouessart, loc. cit. 1905. 



RiBTBOK, or Reedbuck. 



Type of Eleotragus. 



Typical locality Cape Colony. 



Size large, the shoulder-height being about 36 inches, 

 and the length of the skull llyg- inches (290 mm.). Skull 

 narrow across orbits, with long rostrum — length 5^ inches 

 (164 mm.) — and small orbits. General colour light greyish 

 fawn, strongly but finely grizzled with brown, and having a 

 more or less fulvous tinge, which becomes pronounced on the 

 head and neck, so as to cause a marked contrast between 

 their tint and that of the body ; occasionally a brown patch 

 on muzzle or crown ; chin and under-parts white ; back of 

 ears pale fawn, without black tips ; a whitish patch at base 

 of ears round the subauricular bare area, the latter clothed in 



