TEAGELAPHIN^ 159 



F,— Tragelaphus scpiptus deoula. 



Antilope deoula, Biippell, Neue Wirhelth. Abyssin. p. 11, pi. iv, 

 1835-40 ; Schinz, Synop. Mamm. vol. ii, p. 427, 1845 ; Huet, 

 Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 78, 1887. 



Antilope (Tragelaphus) deoula, Oervais, Diet. Sci. Nat., Suppl. vol. i, 

 p. 266, 1840; Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Begne Anim. p. 181, 1842; 

 Beichenbach, Sdugethiere, vol. iii, p. 78, 1845 ; Giebel, Sduge- 

 thiere, p. 311, 1853-55. 



Calliope deoula, Bilppell, Verzeichidss Mus. SencTtenberg. vol. iii, 

 pt. 2, p. 182, 1842. 



Tragelaphus deoula. Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 166, 1843, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 145, Knowsley Menagerie, p. 28, 1850, 

 Cat. TJngulata Brit. Mus. p. 139, 1852 Cat. Buminants Brit. 

 Mus. p. 50, 1872, Hand-List Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 120, 1873 ; 

 Wagner, Schreber's Sdugthiere, 8upj)l. vol. iv, p. 442, 1844, 

 vol. V, p. 445, 1855 ; Sundevall, K. Svenslca Vet.-AJc. Handl. 

 1844, p. 189, 1846 ; Schinz, Mon. Antilop. p. 26, 1848 ; Heuglin, 

 Nova Acta Ac. Cces. Leap.- Gar. vol. xxx, p. 20, pi. i, fig. 5, 1863, 

 Zoogr. Both. Meer, p. 26, 1869, Beise Weiss. Nil, p. 319, 1869, 

 Beise Nordost-Afrika, vol. ii, p. 120, 1877 ; Flower, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1875, p. 186; Brooke, ibid. 1878, p. 884; Jentink, Cat. 

 Osteol. Leyden Mtis. (Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. ix) p. 141, 1889, Cat. 

 Mamm. Leyden Mus. {op. cit. vol. xi) p. 173, 1892 ; LydekJcer, 

 Horns and Hoofs, p. 252, 1893 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, 

 ed. 2, p. 196, 1896 ; Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, 

 pp. 81 and 83, 1897 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, 

 vol. iv, p. 105, pi. Ixxxviii, 1900; Lonnberg, Archiv Zool. vol. ii, 

 no. 15, p. 6, 1905 ; Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1912, 

 p. 545. 



Tragelaphus soriptus deoula, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 388 ; 

 W. L. Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Mamm. vol. i, p. 233, 1900 ; 

 Bothschild, Powell-Cotton's Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, 

 p. 477, 1902 ; Lydehher, Game Animals of Affica, p. 328, 1908 ; 

 Drake-Brockman, Mammals of Somali, p. 91, 1910 ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 309, 1910. 



(?) Tragelaphus deoula fulvo-oohraoeus, Matschie, Sitzber. Ges. nat. 

 Freunde, 1912, p. 564. 



Typical locaJity Abyssinia. 



Height at shoulder about 26 inches. Neck fully haired ; 

 dorsal crest black ; general colour yellowish or sandy brown, 

 gradually darkening on shoulders and hind-quarters, and so 

 on to under-parts ; a white spot below each eye, and another 

 on lower jaw ; two longitudinal bands, of which the lower is 

 broken up into streaks, but generally no distinct transverse 

 stripes or haunch-spots; usual throat- and limb-markings 

 present. T. clecula fulvo-ochraceus is based on the skull and 

 skin of a female from Dungoler, near Lake Tsana (Tana)^ 



