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Subadult male of a darker brown than the adult and with the white 
markings even less distinct. 
Adult female. Smaller than the male and of a nc dark red colour, blacker 
dorsally, with a dark spinal stripe and very faint indications of white stripes 
on the body. Fore legs blackish from above the knee; hind legs blackish 
from below the hock ; pastern-spots distinct. 
Young female more or less distinctly marked with white stripes and spots, 
and more yellowish in colour than the adult. 
[We have taken our descriptions of this species from a series of skins, 
unfortunately for the most part imperfect and without determination of 
sex, that were brought from Lake Victoria by Herr Oscar Neumann, who 
has kindly lent them to us. Three of these skins appear to be those of 
males, while the remainder, four in number, are, judging by their colour, 
females, or young of doubtful sex. One of the latter has the hoofs very 
much worn, and must be regarded from this circumstance as. adult, 
although it is very much smaller than the skin of what we suppose to be the 
adult male. | 
Hab. Lakes and swamps of Eastern Africa near Lake Victoria. 
The name of John Hanning Speke will ever go down to posterity as that 
of one of the most enterprising and most successful of African Explorers. 
Speke, however, was by no means only an Explorer, he was also an ardent 
lover of Natural History, and during his many expeditions in Africa never 
failed to bring home such specimens as his rapid mode of travelling would allow 
him to carry with him. Amongst the discoveries of his celebrated journey” 
of 1859-63 to the Victoria Nyanza was the present Antelope, which he met 
with in December 1861, when enjoying the hospitality of King Rumanika of 
Karagweh. The king presented Speke with a living example of a young 
male of this species, which had been captured in the high rushes at the head 
of one.of the neighbouring Lakes, and also gave him the horns of an adult 
male specimen, We learn further, from Speke’s ‘Journal,’ that King 
Rumanika was clad in a wrapper made of the skin of this Antelope, which is 
said to be much prized by the natives for its excellent quality. For the 
illustration of his ‘Journal of Discovery,’ published in 1863, Speke had 
a beautiful woodcut prepared by Wolf from these specimens, which, by 
