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with his mother, and another Oryx in the thornbush below Chanler Falls. This proves 

 that the calving season is not quite regular. 



Tragelaphus haywoodi Thomas. (?) 



Thomas: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1905, p. 181. 



Unfortunately I did not succeed in obtaining any Bushbuck when I visited 

 such places as Escarpment, and Meru boma where antelopes of this kind were to be 

 found. In the dry country, where we spent most of the time collecting, no Bush- 

 bucks live. Twice the natives brought Bushbuck-skins for sale but as they were 

 very badly mutilated I did not care to buy them. The first time this happened 

 near Escarpment station. That skin was dark without any stripes only with some 

 few spots. The second skin of Bushbuck was shown to me some distance south of 

 Meru boma. It was about chocolate-brown with one faint transverse stripe, and 

 some few spots which also were rather faintly developed. 



To judge from the locality, at least the latter skin, and probably the first as 

 well, ought to have belonged to the Kenia race of Bushbucks which Thomas has 

 named as above. Thomas type which was from Nyiri, a locality intermediate between 

 these two, had, however; » three inconspicuous transverse whitish stripes on each side. 

 No longitudinal bands, but a few white spots on the sides of the rump». The num- 

 ber of transverse stripes is thus variable in the Bushbucks of the Kenia district. 



Boocercus* eurycerus isaaci Thomas. 



Thomas: Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7 Ser. Vol. 10, 1902, p. 309. 



At Meru boma I bougth a pair of Bongo horns from a native. The animal 

 had been caugth in a pitfall somewhat to the southwest of Meru boma, and as far 

 as I could make out, in the upper forest region on the northeastern side of Kenia. 

 Length along the front curve nearly 79 cm.; in a straight hne 69 mm.; basal circum- 

 ference 29 Vs cm.; from tip to tip 29 cm.; greatest spread (outside) nearly 44 cm. 

 As only a part of the skull remains the only measurement of value to be recorded 

 is the least interorbital width which is 108 mm. 



I saw also the skin of this animal, but it was very mutilated and in a bad 

 state so that I did not care to buy that. It was dark chestnut red with 12 white 

 flank stripes. The dorsal stripe was mixed black and white. 



About the end of March when the expedition passed through the mixed bamboo 

 and forestregion on the eastern side of Kenia spoors and droppings of Bongo were 

 seen at an altitude of about 2,700, in the same tract where the Hylochcerus appeared 



1 Although Thomas plainly has stated that he has given this name in consequence of the hovine tail 

 of the Bongo several authors wrongly spell Boocerus (!) as if the name referred to the horns ! 



