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Further to the south, in the valley of the Chobé and Upper Zambesi, 
T. scriptus is again met with, but under a modified form, which may for the 
present be regarded as a distinct subspecies. ‘This animal was first discovered 
by Mr. Chapman on the Botletlie River, and subsequently on the Chobé by 
Mr. Selous, who described it in his ‘Hunter’s Wanderings’ and in the Zoological 
Society’s ‘ Proceedings’ for 1881. Mr. Selous, in response to an inquiry on 
this point, kindly informs us that he has never seen a skin either of adult or 
young of the Chobé Bushbuck marked with an upper longitudinal white 
stripe; and we learn from his published observations on this animal, and from 
the skins of it that are now in the British Museum, that the females and 
young are much less strongly striped and spotted with white than are the 
adult males. 
This does not appear to be the case as regards the typical 7. scriptus; and 
although the entire absence of the upper white band in the form from the 
Chobé suggests the possibility of identity between it and the form from the 
Congo, we know nothing of the characters of the females and young of the 
latter to justify us in assigning the name phaleratus to the subspecies first 
figured and described by Mr. Selous. The animal for which we propose to 
adopt Mr. Pocock’s name TZ’. scriptus ornatus may be described as follows :— 
Male adult. General characters as in 7. scriptus. Height at withers of adult male 
about 28 inches. Colour dark red, with as many as seven or eight transverse white stripes, 
about six white spots on the shoulders, and as many as twenty on the hind-quarters, 
and a line of white spots passing longitudinally above the belly. Belly, chest, and limbs 
on outer side down to knees and hocks blackish. ace deep greyish fawn, with very 
faint white eye-spots. A dorsal crest of long white hairs extending from the shoulder 
to the root of the tail. 
Young male. Pale reddish yellow, with spots and stripes much more faintly marked. 
Female. Smaller than male, chestnut in colour, marked with only three or four faint 
white stripes and with fewer spots than in the other sex ; belly reddish yellow, paler than 
the sides of the body ; outer side of limbs chestnut above and below the knees and hocks. © 
Young female. Lighter red and less spotted than adult. 
At the end of our list of synonyms of the typical form of this Antelope it 
will be observed that we have added, with a mark of doubt, Tragelaphus gratus 
of Rochebrune’s ‘ Faune de la Sénégambie,’ upon which Dr. Trouessart has 
based his Tragelaphus obscurus. All that can be said of Rochebrune’s figure | 
is that, if correctly drawn, it cannot have been taken from Limnotragus gratus, 
which is at once recognizable by its elongated hoofs, and that it is more 
