160 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Abyssinia, in the collection of Major Powell-Cotton, stated 

 to differ from the female of typical deciola by the presence 

 of white hairs in the dorsal crest, which is blackish brown 

 instead of chestnut-brown, by the ochery general colour, and 

 the absence of white longitudinal bands. 



61, a. Skull, with horns, and skin, immature. 

 Abyssinia ; collected by Dr. Eiippell. Ptirchased. 



74. 11. 2. 7. Skin, mounted, and skull. Salam tributary 

 of the Upper Atbara Valley, Abyssinia. 



Purchased {Gerrard), 1874. 



74. 11. 2. 8. Skin, mounted, and skull, female. Same 

 locality. Same history. 



76. 9. 26. 8. Skeleton, with horns, mounted. Upper 

 Atbara Valley. Purehased {Gerrard), 1876. 



4. 9. 25. 1. Skull, with horns, and skin, young. Horoso 

 Valley, Abyssinia. 



Presented hy J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1904. 



12. 11. 13. 1. Head, mounted. Binder Valley, 

 Abyssinia ; shot by Capt. M. E. T. Gunthorpe. 



Presented hy Col. S. J. Gunthorpe, 1912. 



G. — Tragrelaphus scriptus meneliki. 



Tragelaphus meneliki, 0. Neuviann, Sitzber. Oes. nat. Freunde, 1902, 

 p. 93 ; Lonnberg, Arlciv Zool. voL ii, no. 15, p. 6, 1905 ; 

 Matschie, Sitsber. Qes. nat. Freunde, 1912, p. 545. 



Tragelaphus scriptus meneliki, Lydelclier, Qreat and Sviall Game of 

 Africa, p. 325, 1908, Suppl. p. 16, 1911. 



Typical locality Gara Mulatta, Burka, and Jaffa Eanges, 

 on upper Webi Shebeli watershed, Arusi Gallaland. 



Type in collection of Dr. 0. Neumann. 



Size large, shoulder-height about 29^ inches ; coat long ; 

 neck fully haired ; dorsal crest black, with a few white hairs 

 posteriorly ; general colour ranging from blackish rufous 

 grey (like that of sylvatious, infra, p. 162) to deep shining 

 black ; no white markings on body with the occasional 

 exception of two or three flecks on haunches ; an imperfect 

 white chevron between eyes ; white markings on fore-legs 

 much the same as in multicolor {infra, p. 177), but the spots 

 above hoofs smaller and less distinct. Pemale light brownish 



