TRAGELAPHIN^, 169 



Typical locality Kalakaba, about 40 miles from Mahagi, 

 at tlie north end of the Albert Nyanza, below the water- 

 shed of the Ituri. The typical locality of d. simplex is the 

 Ituri Valley, near Kifuku and Irumu ; and that of d. sassce 

 Kasindi, north of the Albert Edward Nyanza, where simplex 

 is also stated to occur. 



Type in the collection of Major Powell-Cotton at Quex. 



Typically a large, short-haired, and long-tailed race, in 

 which the total length of the skin is fully 63 inches (160 cm.), 

 and that of the tail 11| to 13 inches (29-33 cm.). Neck 

 with a short-haired collar ; dorsal crest blackish brown with 

 a few white hairs, but in immature males largely mingled 

 in its hind portion with white and ochery brown hairs; 

 general colour orange-ochre, with a rufous tinge in females 

 and young males ; middle line of under-parts black, but 

 orange-ochre in females ; markings variable, being in some 

 cases indicated only by a few transverse lines of longer 

 hairs, but in others by from four to nine transverse stripes, 

 of which some show white spots, and a longitudinal line of 

 flecks, with a few spots on upper part of thigh. The so- 

 called d. simplex is stated to differ by its smaller size and 

 paler colouring, the general tint being more ochery aud less 

 inclined to rufous ; d. sassce is intermediate in size between 

 the two others, very similar in colour to the first, but greyer, 

 with a distinct longitudinal line of white flecks, which tend 

 to unite posteriorly into a band, four or five more or less 

 distinct transverse white stripes, five large spots on haunches, 

 and the posterior half of the dorsal crest nearly white. 



Some of the following specimens may belong to this form. 



63. 7. 7. 5 (649, i). Skull, with horns. Uganda. 



Presented hy Capt. J. H. Speke, 1863. 



63. 7. 7. 5* (649,y). Skull, with horns, and scalp-skin 

 attached. Same locality. Same history. 



6. 12. 4. 121. Skull and skin, immature female. 

 Euwenzori, north of the Albert Edward Nyanza, and thus 

 very near the typical locality of sassce. 



Presented ly B. B. Woosnam Esq., 1906. 



3. 2. 12. 2. Skin (skull in Cambridge Museum). East 

 shore of Albert Nyanza. 



Presented hy J. S. Budgett, Esq., 1903. 



