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basal girth, with a tip-to-tip interval of 21 inches, but in an 

 older specimen the corresponding dimensions are respectively 

 39, 9|, and 22 inches. 



10. 11. 29. 1. Skin, subadult, mounted. Sahatu Moun- 

 tains, Arusi Gallaland. Type (fig. 26). 



Presented ly Ivor Buxton, Esq., 1910. 

 12. 12. 2. 1. Skull, with horns. Same locality. 



Presented hy J. Rowland Ward, Esq., 1912. 

 14. 5. 7. 1. Two body-skins. Same locality. 



Presented hy Messrs. Rowland. Ward, Ltd., 1914. 



2. Subgenus LIMNOTRAGUS. 



Hydrotragus, Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. p. 49, 1872, nee 



Fitzinger, 1866. 

 Limnotragus, Sclater and Thomas,* Book of Antelopea, vol. iv, 



pp. 90 and 108, 1900; Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 930; 



Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix, no. 8, p. 16, 1912. 



Hoofs elongated, backs of pasterns bare. 



The range includes the Congo Valley and the neighbour- 

 hood of the great lakes of southern and eastern Africa, 

 extending northwards to Tanganyika and the Bahr-el-Ghazal, 

 and southwards to the Chobi and Zambesi. 



IV. TEAGELAPHUS (LIMNOTRAGUS) SPEKEI. 



Tragelaphus spekel, Sclater, in Speke's Journal of Discovery, p. 223, 

 1863, Proc. Zool. Boo. 1864, p. 103, pi. xii, 1880, p. 452, 1883, 

 p. 34 ; Heuglin, Beise Weiss. Nil, p. 319, 1869 ; Peters, Mitt. Ah. 

 Berlin, 1876, p. 484; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 485, 1878, 

 p. 884 ; Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. ser. 4, vol. iv, p. 83, 1887 ; 

 Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 388 ; Flower and LydeKker, 

 Study of Mammals, p. 347, 1891 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, 

 p. 155, 1892 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 254, 1893 ; Jackson, 

 Big Game Shooting {Bad/minton Libr.), vol. i, p. 311, 1894; 

 Matschie, Saugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, p. 135, 1895 ; Pou- 

 sa/rgues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 78, 1897 ; Both- 

 schild, Novit. Zool. vol. v, p. 206, 1898 ; Gedge, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 476, 1899 ; Letcher, Big Game N. E. Bhodesia, 

 p. 203, 1911 ; Boberts, Ann. Transvaal Mus. vol. iv, p. 106, 1918. 



Eurycerus (Hydrotragus) spekii, Gray, Cat. Buminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 49, 1872. 



* In this portion of the work the place of Mr. Thomas vyas taken 

 by Mr. Pooook. 



