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ieee LANG: 
DAMALISCUS TIANG (Hevét.). 
Bubalus lunatus, Sund. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1842, pp. 201 & 243 (1843) (nec Burch.). 
Bubalis koba, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 209 (1846) ; id. Hornschuch’s 
Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. 11. p. 159; Reprint, p. 83 (1848) (nec Erxl.). 
Damalis tiang, Heugl. Ant. u. Buff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leopold. xxx. pt. ii.) p. 22, 
pl. 1. fig. 1 (head) (¢) (1863); Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 181 (1869) ; 
Matsch. SB. nat. Freund. Berl. 1892, p. 136 (distribution). 
Damalis tiang-riel, Heugl. tom. cit. p. 23, pl. ii. fig. 9 (horns) (?); Fitz. loc. cit. 
Damalis senegalensis, Heugl. tom. cit. p. 22; Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (8) iv. p. 296 
(1859) (Bahr-el-Ghazal, Petherick) ; Baker, Ismailia, pp. 68, 74. 
Antilope senegalensis, Emin, Reise-Briefen, p. 144 (Magungo) (?). 
VeRNACULAR Names :—Tiang and Tian (Heuglin). 
Size rather smaller than that of the Korrigum. General colour purplish 
red; the face, a line beneath the eye, another along the nape and back brown 
or black ; front of the limbs and tip of the tail deep black. 
Skull with a comparatively short nasal region, the nasal bones themselves 
unusually short and broad. Measurements ( 2 ):—basal length 13:8 inches, 
greatest breadth 5°75, muzzle to eye 10:2. 
Horns as in the Korrigum ; those of a female 20°5 inches in length over 
the curve. 
The colour-characters above given are taken from Heuglin’s description and 
figure, as noskin has been seen by us. A skull obtained by Consul Petherick 
on the Bahr-el-Ghazal has, however, furnished the cranial dimensions. 
Hab. Sennaar, Kordofan, and Bahr-el-Ghazal. 
The Tiang, as the well-known German traveller and naturalist Theodor 
