p- 757; id. Hunter’s Wanderings S. Afr. p. 216 (1881); Pagenst. JB. Mus. 
Hamb. ii. p. 40 (1884); Flow. & Gars. Cat. Coll. Surg. i. p. 272 (1884) ; 
Johnston, Kilimanjaro, pp. 218 & 394, fig. 47 (1886); Noack, Zool. JB. ii. 
p- 206 (1887) ; Jent. Notes Leyd. Mus. ix. p. 173 (1887); id. Cat. Ost. Leyd. 
Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 188 (1889); id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. 
x1.) p. 170 (1892) ; Hunter, in Willoughby’s E. Afr. p. 288 (1889); Crawshay, 
P. Z.S. 1890, p. 654 (Nyasa) ; W. Scl. Cat. Mamm. Calc. Mus. i. p. 169 (1891) ; 
Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 341 (1891); Ward, Horn. Meas. (1) p. 99 (1892), (2) 
p- 142 (1896); Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 41, pl. 1. fig. 3 (1892) ; True, 
Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 472 (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 229 (1898) ; 
Lugard, FE. Afr. i. p. 587 (1893); Sel. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 728 (L. Mweru) ; Barkley, 
P. Z. S. 1894, p. 182 (Pungwue Valley); Thos. P. Z. S. 1894, p. 145 (Nyasa) ; 
Jackson, in Badm. Big Game Shooting, i. pp. 285 & 306 (1894) ; Lorenz, Ann. 
Mus. Wien, ix., Notizen, p. 61 (1894) (Upper Limpopo); Rendall, P. Z. S. 1895, 
p. 359 (Transvaal). 
“ Antilope pallah, Cuv.,’”’ Gerv. Dict. Sci. Nat. i. p. 261 (1840). 
Strepsiceros suara, Matsch. SB. Ges. nat. Freund. 1892, p. 135 (skin, not horns). 
LEpyceros suara, Matsch. Thierw. O.-Afr., Sdug. p. 129 (1895). 
Epyceros melampus johnstoni, Thos. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 553 (Nyasa). 
Aipyceros melampus typicus, Thos. |. c. 
Aipyceros melampus holubi, Lorenz, Ann. Mus. Wien, ix., Notizen, p. 62 (1894) 
(“ N. of Zambezi ”’). 
VERNACULAR Names :—Pallah of English; Roodebok or Roibok of Dutch; Pala of 
Bechuanas ; Napala of Matabili; Ke-pala of Makalakas; Jnzero of Masubias ; 
Umpara of Makubas; Lubondwee of Batongas; Kug-ar of Masaras (Selous) ; 
Impaya of Transvaal Shangaans (Rendall); Suare in Tette (Peters) ; Nswala 
of Nyasa tribes (Crawshay) and of Hast-African Swahilis (Jackson); Kulungu 
and Nosi near Kilimanjaro (Johnston); Om-gaba in Arabic (Heuglin). 
Size comparatively large; height at the withers about 56 inches. General 
colour bright reddish. brown, paler along the lower part of the sides. In 
southern specimens the colour is rather duller and browner than in northern 
ones, but the difference is very slight. Head dark fawn; a mark over the 
anterior half of the eye, chin, interramia, and upper part of throat white. 
Belly pure white. In front of the eye, on the side of the face, there is 
generally, though not always, in southern specimens an indistinct darker 
patch, but this is never present in northern ones. A black patch occasionally 
present on the crown. LEars of medium length, their outer sides fawn, 
with the terminal third black. Limbs like the back, a lighter ring round the 
