Gt) THE SELOrS COrLECTIOX. 



ronaleynei,' or 'Bushbnek of the Limpopo.' These Bushbucks 



are smaller than those found in the Cape Colony. If we 



now take the Bushbucks found on the banks of the Chohe, we 

 find that the adult male is of a very dark red colour, in places 

 merging into a deep brownish black, most beautifully spotted with 

 large white spots, there being 'as many as fifty on each side in 

 some individuals, and m some cases as many as eight well-defined 

 white stripes besides. There is also a mane of white hair running 

 all down the back from the shoulder to the tail, about 3 inches in 



length, and which the animal can erect at pleasure " 



Tlie Cape Bushbuck described in the above is the animal now 

 known as Tragelaphiis scripitis sylvaticiis. 



371 —19.7.15.396. October, 1887. Lo Magondi'g, Mashonaland, 



Southern Ehodesia. 



372 —19.7.15.397. September, 1887. Biver Angwa, North 



Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia. 

 373-374 —19. 7. 15. 398-399. July, 1879. South bank of Chobe Eirer. 



CAPE BUSHBUCK. 



TuAGEIiAPHUS SCEIP'irS SVLA'ATICrS. 



Antilope sylvatica, Sparrman, Act. Holm. 1780, p. 197, pi. vii. ; Eeisen 

 Guten HofEnung, p. 517, pi. iii., 1784; English Transl. (Voyage 

 to Cape of Good Hope, etc.) vol. i. p. 270, vol. ii. p. 220, pi. vi., 1786 ; 

 French Transl. vol. i. p. 293, pi. iii. 



Tragelaplms sylvaticus, Blainville, BuU. Soo. Philom. 1816, p. 75. 



Tragelaphus scriptns sylvaticus, Thomas, Proo. Zool. Soo. 1891, p. 389. 



Size as in ornatus, horns longer. General colom* darker, 

 blackish brown above and without longitudinal or ti-ansverse white 

 stripes on sides ; a few small white spots on haunches and 

 shoulders. Short-haired collar-band and face-markings as in the 

 Chobe race. 



Best horn measurements (No. 19. 7. 15. 400) : — length on 

 front cui-ve 15f ; circumference 5| ; spread from tip to tip 4^. 



Typical locality, Groot Vadersbosch district, Cape Colony; 

 range includes Cape Colony, Orange Eiver Colony, Transvaal, 

 Natal, and parts of Portuguese East Africa. 



This race is referred to by Selous in his paper published in the 



