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W.— Trag-elaphus seriptus olivaeeus. 



Tragelaphus seriptus olivaeeus, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. 

 Ixi, no. 13, p. 1, 1913. 



Typical locality Maji-ya-Chumbi, B. E. Africa. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Smaller and lighter-coloured than delamerei ; general 

 colour greyish olive, without any rufous suffusion ; hair of 

 neck short throughout ; dorsal crest white ; sides and hind- 

 quarters with white spots ; legs seal-brown (except where 

 white) ; auditory bullae of skull large. Female cinnamon- 

 coloured, with from six to eight white transverse stripes, a 

 longitudinal row of white spots, and a few white spots on 

 the haunches ; crown of head and nose olive-brown, with- 

 out a white chevron in front of eyes, which is, however, 

 present in females. The short-haired neck would appear to 

 be merely a character of full maturity. 



The range is stated to extend along "the edge of the 

 Taru Desert and the moist coast-strip from Kilimanjaro 

 northward at least as far as the Tana Eiver. It is a 

 lighter-coloured race than either masaicus or delamerei, and 

 is readily distinguished by its lack of any rufous coloration 

 in the male " (Heller). 



No specimen in the collection has been identified with 

 this form. 



X. — Trag-elaphus seriptus massaieus. 



Tragelaphus massaious, 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1902, p. 96 ; Lonnberg, ArTtiv Zool. vol. ii, no. 15, p. 5, 1905 ; 

 Matschie, Sitzber. Qes. nat. Freunde, 1912, p. 544. 



Tragelaphus seriptus masaicus, Lydekher, Great and Small Gam,e of 

 Africa, p. 324, 1908 ; Wa/rd, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 307, 

 1910, ed. 7, p. 306, 1914 ; Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi,. 

 no. 13, p. 2, 1913. 



Typical locality Upper Bubu Valley, north-west of 

 Irangi, German East Africa. 



Type in collection of Dr. 0. Neumann. 



Eesembling multicolor in general type of colouring, but 

 with the black of the under-parts less sharply defined from 

 the rufous brown of the sides ; the dorsal crest, four or more 



