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situated about 17° S. lat., and from 30 to 60 miles from the coast. Peters 
allows that the present form comes very near the typical O. scoparia, but 
considers that it differs in its longer ears, the smaller size of the naked spot 
beneath the ear, the white underside of the tail, and the less compressed 
form of the hoofs. Peters’s specimens are in the Berlin Museum. 
More recently the British Museum has acquired several skins of an 
Antelope, which should be the same, to judge from its locality, as Peters’s 
O. hastata, among the splendid collections amassed by Sir H. H. Johnston in 
Nyasaland with the aid of his naturalist Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S. These 
were obtained on the grassy plains between Zomba, where Mr. Whyte is 
resident, and Lake Shirwa. These materials, however, are not yet sufficient 
to enable us to pronounce a decided opinion as to whether this Oribi should 
be really treated of as a species distinct from its brother of the Cape Colony. 
The two forms certainly come very near one another, and we are rather 
doubtful whether they can be properly distinguished. 
December, 1895. 
