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ere OPT. 
DAMALISCUS JIMELA (Matscz.). 
Damalis senegalensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 176 (Lamu); Noack, Zool. JB. ii. 
p- 208 (1887); Scl. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 354 (woodcuts of head and horns, excl. all 
synonyms, which mostly belong to D. korrigum and D. tiang) ; Kirk, ap. Scl. 1. c. 
p. 357, footnote (distribution) ; Ward, Horn Meas. p. 64, fig. (head) (1892). 
Damalis jimela, Matsch. SB. nat. Fr. Berl. 1892, p. 135. 
Bubalis jimeru, Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 203 (1893). 
Alcelaphus senegalensis, Lugard, K. Africa, i. p. 582, pl. p. 448 (head) (1893). 
Senegal Antelope, Willoughby, East Afr. p. 283 (Tana River). 
Vernacutar Names :—Jimela of Uniamwezi (Matschie); Topi, Tope, or Topee of 
Swahili; Nemira otf Uganda (Lugard). 
Size small, height at withers 43-44 inches. Fur very short and close, 
but mingled with it there are numerous patches of longer hairs, so that 
a somewhat brindled appearance is produced. General colour a peculiar 
purplish brown, blackish on face and chin, shoulders, and round the upper 
fore legs and thighs, but these darker markings are not really black and are 
not sharply defined. Hams scarcely lighter than the rest. Limbs and feet 
without dark patches, except that the backs of the pasterns are black. Fur 
on face directed upwards, from the extreme tip between the nostrils up to 
the horns, without break. Tail reaching just to the hock, its terminal half 
black-crested. 
Skull comparatively small, with an unusually long nasal region; the nasal 
bones very long and narrow. Basal length ( ? ) 13°3 inches, greatest breadth 
5°2, muzzle to orbit 9°5. 
Horns as in the Korrigum, but shorter and slenderer; those of a female 
16°4 inches in length. 
