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Zoological Society on December 15th, 1896 *. From the MS. notes written 
on these three drawings we learn that they were made on board the 
s.s. ‘African’ on Sept. 11th and 12th, 1848, and represent the adult female 
and young male of this Antelope—the “ Dacris” of Whitfield. 
By the kind permission of Lord Derby we now give an exact copy, slightly 
reduced in size, put upon the stone by Mr. Smit (Plate LX XVIII.), of 
Waterhouse Hawkins’s drawing of the ‘“ Dacris,’ which forms one of the 
figures of plate 5 of the second volume of this valuable series, and is stated to 
represent an adult female. This figure will be observed to differ from that 
of the male (Plate LX XVII.) in its much lighter and more reddish colouring, 
and especially in the longer ears of the Gambian animal. 
One of the young specimens brought home by Whitfield is now stuffed in 
the Derby Museum at Liverpool. As we learn from the label, it died in 
London on its way to Knowsley. 
More recently heads of this Antelope have been obtained on the Gambia by 
Dr. Percy Rendall, F.Z.S., and by Sir R. B. Llewelyn, the present Governor. 
The latter were exhibited by Sclater at a meeting of the Zoological Society 
on May 3rd, 1898 7, when attention was called to the large number of fine 
Antelopes that occur in the Gambia Colony, and to the desirableness of 
procuring further information about them. According to the notes supplied 
to us by Sir R. B. Llewelyn, the Roan Antelope, which is the ‘ Da Kevoi” of 
the Mandingos, is found in some places in Jara and Kiaung, and is common 
in Eastern Niammina. 
The horns in question are those of a not fully adult animal, mea- 
suring 264 inches along the curvature. ‘They do not present any noticeable 
features to distinguish them from those of Hippotragus equinus typicus of 
South Africa. 
The existence of this Antelope in West Africa has been further confirmed 
by Herr Matschie, who has included it in his list of Mammals of the German 
Protectorate of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea, where it occurs on the uplands 
of the interior. Herr Matschie kindly informs us that the Berlin Museum 
has received from that locality a defective head and skin without horns from 
Misa-hohe, transmitted by Herr Baumann, and two skulls of females from 
Bismarckburg (ling and Conrad). In the collection of the British Museum 
* See BP. ZS. 1896, p. 981. 
7 See P. Z.S. 1898, p. 349. 
