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down to the fetlocks; fetlocks and pasterns, like those of the fore limbs, 
whitish. 
Horns with not more than two turns. 
Female. Smaller than the male; of a rich chestnut-red, darker above than 
below; white markings on the head and body resembling those of the male 
in position and distinctness, but the spinal stripe black. Legs whitish on 
the inner sides below the knees and hocks; the outer sides dark in front 
down to the fetlock. 
The skull of an adult male gives the following measurements :—Basal 
length 11-5 inches, orbit to muzzle 6°5, greatest width 4°75. 
Hab. West Africa, from the Cameroons to the Congo. 
The first allusion that we can find to the occurrence of a species of the 
Sitatunga-group on the West Coast of Africa is in the Zoological Society’s 
‘ Proceedings’ for 1848, where it is recorded that the Secretary exhibited, at 
the meeting on June 13th, the skull and horns of an Antelope closely allied 
to Antilope euryceros, Ogilby, and read a letter in reference to it received 
from Capt. Wilham Allen, R.N. Capt. Allen described the appearance of 
the animal from memory only, but stated that he had himself obtained the 
specimen at a place called Kokki on the Cameroons River. The pair of 
hornsin question are now in the British Museum, and belong, in all probability, 
to the present species. 
In 1871 Sir Victor Brooke read an excellent paper on Speke’s Antelope 
and its allies before the Zoological Society of London. The list of specimens 
of his Tragelaphus spekii given in the ‘ Proceedings’ contains examples of 
all three species of Limnotragus, as we here consider them. ‘The figure 
(fig. 112, p. 167) of specimen “g” (which we are allowed to reproduce by 
the kindness of that Society) was taken, we believe, from a West-Coast 
example, and is therefore referable to LZ. gratus. 
In 1880 Mr. Sclater received from Mr. R. W. Rolleston, of Liverpool, a 
flat skin of the very remarkable red female of this species, said to have been 
received from Gaboon. ‘This was exhibited and described at the meeting of 
the Zoological Society on June 15th of that year, and a new species— 
Tragelaphus gratus—was founded upon it. Sclater’s original description was 
accompanied by a beautiful figure of the animal prepared by Joseph Wolf, ~ 
