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Typical locality Abilel a, Lower Shari Valley, K W. Africa. 



Type in Senckenberg Museum, Frankfort-am-Main. 



Stated to be larger than any of the other " Sudan " races 

 (shoulder-height 5 feet 3 inches, according to Alexander), 

 but in colour approximating to the western H. e. gamhianus, 

 although in the shape of the horns intermediate between 

 the two. 



General colour ochery buff, paler on flanks, and suffused 

 with white on neck and shoulders, thus producing a greyish 

 tinge ; hairs of mane huffish at base, then brown, and black 

 at tips ; dorsal pale brown stripe continued on to tail as a 

 black line ; tail-tip black ; thighs and limbs ochery, passing 

 into clay-colour above hoofs ; black lines round lateral 

 hoofs ; a seal-brown band on front of fore-legs extending at 

 least as low as knees ; under-parts huffish white ; ears very 

 long, ochery on backs, with black terminal tufts ; face- 

 markings variable. Nasal bones long and broad ; horns long 

 and divergent, with the tips, which may be either inverted 

 or everted, very long, and therefore different from those of 

 haheri ; those of gamhianus being distinguished by their 

 smaller size. Basal length of skull 16f inches (425 mm.). 



No specimen in collection. 



E. — Hippotragus equinus gambianus. 



.lEgoceros koba, Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 35, 1872, 



Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 103, 1878 ; based on 



Buffon's " koba " = Antilope koba, Erxleben.* 

 Hippotragus koba, Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 142, 1892 ; 



Matschie, Mitth. deutsch. Schutz-gehiet, vol. vi, p. 17, 1893 ; 



Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 131, 1896. 

 Hippotragus equinus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. 8oc. 1896, p. 988, 1898, 



p. 350. 

 Hippotragus equinus gambianus, Sclater arid Thomas, Book of 



Antelopes, vol. iv, pp. 15 and 28, pi. Ixxviii, 1899 ; de Winton, 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 359, 1899 ; LydekJcer, 



Game Animals of Africa, p. 296, 1908 ; Ward, Records of Big 



Game, ed. 6, p. 289, 1910, ed. 7, p. 287, 1914. 

 Egoceros equinus gambianus, Schwarz, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, 



vol. xii, p. 267, 1913. 



* The reasons for rejecting this name are given in vol. ii, p. 39, 

 of this Catalogue. Sohwarz, /.nn. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. xiii, 

 p. 34, 1914, considers that the specific name indicates the Korrigum, 

 for which he accordingly employs the name Damaliscus koba in place 

 of -D. korrigum. 



