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meeOINTRRS ANTELOPE. 
DAMALISCUS HUNTERI (Sa). 
[PLATE VI.] 
Damalis hunteri, Scl. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 58 (woodcut of head), and p. 372, pl. xlu. 
(animal) (Tana R.); Hunter, in Willoughby’s E. Africa, p. 290, pl. iv. fig. 6 (head) 
(1889). 
Alcelaphus hunteri, Lyd. Field, xxvii. p. 858, fig. (head) (1891). 
Alcelaphus (Damalis) hunteri, Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 336 (1891). 
Bubalis hunteri, Ward, Horn Meas. p. 70, fig. (head) (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, 
p- 200, fig. 40 (head) (1893). 
Vernacutar Name :—Herola of Gallas (Hunter). 
Size medium, form more delicate and graceful than in most of the other 
species. Facial hairs wholly reversed upwards from the muzzle to the 
horns. 
Colour uniform rufous, with no darker markings anywhere, on face, chin, or 
limbs, and the caudal crest even, black in every other species, is here wholly 
white. On the face, however, there is a well-defined white line passing 
from one eye to the other across the forehead. Lower part of rump not 
markedly lighter than upper. 
Skull slender and lightly built. Basal length 12:9 inches, greatest 
breadth 5:2, muzzle to orbit 9:1. 
Horns quite different from those of any other species; at their base they 
start upwards, then curve down and out, then diverge and slant backwards, 
and finally they curve evenly forwards, so that their terminal halves point 
directly upwards. In general form, therefore, they present a slight resem- 
blance to those of the Pallah, a very different animal in all other respects. 
Good male horns attain a length of 20 to 25 inches (largest recorded 
