Hhtat 
“On reaching Crawshay’s house at Rhodesia on the following day, one of 
the first things he said to me was, ‘ Now I am going to tell you about a new 
beast that I have found here.’ I replied at once, ‘I know what it is—a new 
Waterbuck.’ And so it was! Subsequently I obtained and sent you home 
an imperfect skin of this animal.” 
Mr. Sharpe’s skin of this Antelope reached Sclater along with others 
forwarded by Mr. Crawshay, and furnished the materials for the description 
of the new species which was read by Sclater before the Zoological Society 
in November 1893. Sclater proposed to call the new Waterbuck after 
Mr. Crawshay, who was its first discoverer, and who, besides this, has written 
a series of excellent field-notes on the Antelopes of Nyasaland *. 
A letter subsequently received by Sclater from Mr. Crawshay contained 
the following remarks on his new discovery :—‘‘ Amongst the specimens sent 
to you the Waterbuck perhaps most interests me, as I fancy it must be of a 
new species. It most resembles Cobus ellipsiprymnus—the Common Water- 
buck of Nyasa and Southern Africa—and may be termed the Waterbuck 
proper of Mweru. It is the ‘Chuzwi’ of the Awemba and the people of 
Itawa and Kabwiri, as opposed to the much more common and numerous red 
Vardon’s Waterbuck (Cobus vardoni), which is known by the same people 
as ‘ Sayula.’ 
“Tn make and shape the Mweru buck is quite similar to C. ellipsiprymnus, 
and has the same shaggy coat and powerful ovine scent, but in size it is a 
trifle smaller, and in habits apparently it is rather different. 
“In colouring and marking there exists a very appreciable difference, 
especially in the marking. The back and flanks of the Mweru species are of 
dark steel-blue, verging almost on black. The face, knees, hocks, fetlocks, — 
and coronets of the feet are quite black—a glossy coal-black. Over the rump 
the broad crescent-shaped band of white found in C. ellipsiprymnus is absent, 
the bluish black on the rump gradually toning down into dirty grey at the 
root of the tail and between the haunches. 
“Thus ‘ Kringaat,’ the name by which the Dutch of Southern Africa know 
the Waterbuck, would not be characteristic of the Mweru animal. 
“In the case of C. ellipsiprymnus running from one, the white band over 
the rump is so conspicuous a feature as to catch the eye in itself, and draw 
attention to the form of the animal disappearing between the trunks of trees, 
* “On the Antelopes of Nyasaland,” by Richard Crawshay, P.Z.S. 1890, p. 648. 
