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Menagerie in October 1890, in which its arrival was noticed, will be found a 
coloured plate by Mr. Smit, giving an accurate representation of the animal 
as it then appeared. The Sitatunga thus acquired quickly attained its full 
stature, and showing symptoms of readiness to breed, was placed, in 1894, in 
company with a male of the Congo species (Z. gratus) which had been 
obtained by purchase from the Zoological Gardens, Hamburg, no male of 
its own species being available. From this union hybrids were born on 
February 12th, 1896, and on February 28th, 1897, being in each case of the 
female sex. The period of gestation was, in both cases, about seven months. 
The young animals in general appearance took after the colour of the female 
of L. gratus, being of a generally bright red colour with white lateral stripes 
and white spotson the haunches. Such a young one is well represented, along 
with its mother, in the background of our Plate XCIV. In June 1899 the 
Society were fortunate enough to obtain a fine adult male example of this 
Antelope from the Right Honourable Cecil J. Rhodes’s Park at Groot Schuur, 
near Capetown, from which the principal figure in our Plate XCIV. has been 
taken. Mr. Rhodes kindly accepted in exchange for it one of the female 
hybrids above mentioned. ‘The Society have therefore at present a unique 
pair of this scarce and beautiful Antelope in the Collection, besides the 
female hybrid born in 1896. 
The specimens in the National Collection referable to this form of the 
Sitatunga comprise two pairs of horns from the Chobé River (Selous), one 
pair of young horns from Lake Ngami (J. A. Green), the skin of an adult 
from the Zambesi (Chapman), and a pair of horns from Lake Mweru 
(Crawshay). 
When Mr. Rothschild separated this southern form of the Sitatunga as 
Tragelaphus selousi in 1898 (Nov. Zool. vol. v. p. 206), he did not distinctly 
state the specimen from which he took the description of the adult male, 
but we presume it to be the above-mentioned specimen from the Barotze 
District (Coryndon), which he has kindly lent us. For the type of his female, 
however, Mr. Rothschild expressly designates the female now living in the 
Zoological Society’s Gardens. We are therefore, no doubt, correct in 
applying the appropriate specific name “‘ seloust”’ to the present form. 
April, 1900. 
