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- LIMNOTRAGUS SPEKIT (Scuaten). 
[PLATE XCIII.] 
Tragelaphus spekii, Sclater, in Speke’s Journ. of Discov. p. 223 (1863) ; id. P. Z. S. 1864, 
p. 103, pl. xi1., 1880, p. 452, 1883, pp. 34-37 ; Heugl. Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 319 
(1869); Brooke, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 485 (part.) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 884; Huet, 
Bull. Soc. Acclim. (4) iv. p. 83 (1887); Thos. P. Z.S. 1891, p. 388 (part.) ; 
Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 347 (1891) (part.) ; Ward, Horn Meas. p. 155 (1892) ; 
id. Records, p. 197 (1896), (2) p. 292 (1899) (part.) ; Lugard, Rise E. Afr. Emp. 
i. p. 5383 (1893) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 254 (1893); id. Royal Nat. Hist. ii. 
p- 276 (1894) (part.); Jackson, Big Game Shooting, p. 311 (1894) ; Matsch. 
Saug. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 189 (1895) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. p. 958 (1898) 
(part.) ; Gedge, in Ward’s Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 476 (1899). 
Eurycerus (Hydrotragus) spekii, J. E. Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 49 (1872) (part.). 
Eurycerus spekii, Gray, Hand-l. Rum. p. 119 (1873) (part.). 
Tragelaphus spekui spekii, Rothschild, Novit. Zool. v. p. 206 (1898). 
Vernacutar Names:—WNzoé of Karagweh (Speke); Chobé or Njobé of Uganda 
(Gedge). 
Adult male. Height at the withers about 36 inches. General colour a 
tolerably uniform greyish brown, greyer on the sides of the neck; a dark 
median dorsal line running down the nape, over the withers, and then passing 
into white in the middle line of the back. Head with white ocular and cheek- 
spots and white chin, as in the other species of the genus. A few pale spots 
low down on the hind-quarters, an indistinct line of similar spots extending 
along the sides above the belly, and in the adult at last only very ill-defined 
white stripes on the body. legs of a richer and darker brown than the 
body; fore legs pale behind the knee and down the inner side of the cannon- 
bone, the pastern-spots scarcely distinct ; hind legs coloured like fore legs, but 
pale in front of the hock. 
Horns without a third twist. 
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