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spekii, with which, until quite’ recently, it was generally believed to be 
identical. In the same way Sir Victor Brooke, in his article on Speke’s 
Antelope and its allied species, published in the Zoological Society’s 
‘Proceedings’ for 1871, comprises in his list of specimens of Tragelaphus 
spekii those of the two allied forms, which we here treat of as probably 
distinct. Of these, his specimens “h” (“frontal bones, horns, and feet, 
in the collection of Mr. Oswell”) are, no doubt, referable to Limmnotragus 
seloust. 
Mr. Selous, in his excellent and often-quoted article on the Antelopes 
of Central South Africa (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 753), writes of this species 
(which Mr. Rothschild has appropriately named after the famous hunter) 
as follows :— 
“This Antelope is only met with in the extensive swamps which exist in some parts 
of the interior of Africa. In the reed-beds of the Mababe, Tamalakan, and Machabe 
rivers it is to be found ; and in the vast marshes through which the Chobe runs it must 
exist in considerable numbers, although, as it only emerges from the dense reed-beds 
at night, it is scarcely ever to be seen. In 1879 I tried hard to shoot some of these 
animals on the Chobe, searching for them in a canoe amongst the reed-beds at early 
dawn and after sunset ; but though I disturbed several, and heard them splashing away 
amongst the reeds and papyrus, I only saw one female alive, though one morning I 
found a fine ram lying dead that had evidently been killed fighting with a rival during 
the night. The head and feet of this animal I preserved. The female that I saw was 
standing breast deep in the water, in the midst of a bed of reeds, feeding on the young 
shoots that just appeared above the water. When she saw us she at once made off, . 
making a tremendous splashing as she plunged through the water. The natives told 
me that very often when these Antelopes are met with under similar circumstances they 
do not attempt to run, but, sinking down in the water, submerge their whole bodies, 
leaving only their nostrils above the surface, and trusting that their enemies will pass 
them unobserved ; they (the Kafirs) then paddle close alongside and assegai them from 
thecanoe. As all the Situtungas the skins of which I saw had been killed with assegais, 
and not shot, I have no doubt that this statement is correct. Another way the natives 
have of killing them is by setting fire to the reeds when they become quite dry, and 
then waiting for the Situtungas in their canoes in one of the channels of open water by 
which the marsh is intersected. Driven forwards by the advancing fire, the Antelopes 
are at last obliged to swim across the open water to gain the shelter of the reeds on the 
further side; and the natives are thus often enabled to cut off and assegai some of them 
in mid stream.” 
We have already alluded to the occurrence of this species in Barotze-land, 
where Mr. Coryndon obtained specimens for Mr. Rothschild. Still further 
