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Antilope arundinacea, Shaw, Zool. — A. Eleotragus, Schreb. Licht. t. 9. — H. Smith. — Harris, W. A. A. t. 26. 
— A. redunca, H. Smith. — Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus.— J. cinerea, Afzehus, 1815. — A. Lalandia, Desmoul. — 
A. Lalandiana, Desm. — A. Lalandii, Fischer. 
Var. Larger. 
A. IsahelUna, Afzelius, N. Act. Upsal. 1815, vii. 244.— Licht. 1. 10. — H. Smith. — Smidev. 
Var. With a large black rhombic spot on the back of the head behind the ears. Brit. Mus. ? , 
Inhabits S. Africa, in marshy places. Brit. Mus. 
Afzelius, Lichtenstein, H. Smith and Sundevall have described two species of this genus as coming from 
South Africa ; the smaller they call ^4. Eleotragus, and the larger A. IsahelUna. The latter author has 
given a comparative character between the two kinds, but he has only seen two specimens of the former (a 
male at Berlin and a female at Stockholm), and several specimens of the larger kind. I have examined 
with care a series consisting of four males and five females from different parts of South Africa, and can 
find no distinction between them, except a slight difference in the length of the fur and in its colour. We 
have two specimens which are larger than the rest, and have the tarsus one-fourth longer than the others ; 
they have a shorter fur and are of a rather brighter colour, and the front of the leg is blacker ; but the fur 
and colour probably depend on the season when they were killed. In these respects they agree with Sun- 
devall's description A. Isahellma, but they both have the temporal spot large and quite naked, while Prof. 
Sundevall described the spot on this species as pubescent. It is the female of the larger specimen that has 
the black spot on the back of the head ; some of the smaller ones have the temple-spot much smaller and 
less naked than the others. The two larger specimens have a single whorl of hair in the middle of the 
back ; the others, with longer hair, show the whorls more distinctly, and have the hair from the central 
whorls to the shoulders forming a more or less diverging line. After examining these specimens and 
those in other collections, I conclude that they form only a single species. M. Sundevall, in a note just 
received, observes : " Mr. Wahlberg considers A. Isabellma and A. Eleotragus as very distinct, and our 
specimens seem to show a difference, though not very well expressed. Also I have committed a mistake, 
for the young female described in my Synopsis as y. under A. IsahelUna, is really A. Eleotragus^ 
** The species from West and East Africa have the muffi,e smaller, scarcely extending beyond the nostrils ; fur fulvous, not 
gristed ; hair grey, with yellow tips ; tail less hushy. 
The WoNTO or Nagor, or Red Antelope. Eleotragus reduncus. Tab. XIII. 
Head broad; horns conical, thick at the base, diverging; fulvous brown, rather pale on the sides; 
hair soft, yellow tipped, all in regular order ; chin, throat, spot under ears and over eyes, inside 
of limbs, under side of tail and lower side of body white ; front of leg sometimes blackish. . 
Antilope redunca, Pallas? — Ruppell, Abys. t. 7, good. — A. rufa, Afzelius, 250, from Buffon. — A. reversa, 
Pallas.'* — Nagor, Buffon, xii. t. 46? — Ourely, F. Cuv. Mam. Lithog. t. ?. — A. IsahelUna, Gray, Cat. 
Mam. Brit. Mus. 
Inhabits " Senegal." Mus. Frankfort and Mus. Leyden. Gambia. Whitfield called it TVonto. 
Male and fawn, British Museum, and a young male living at Knowsley. 
Var. Larger, colour brighter. 
A. Bohor, Ruppell, Abys. t. 7. — Sundev. 
Inhabits Abyssinia. Mus. Frankfort. 
Pallas and Afzelius's account of this species is derived from Buffon's description ; both he and Adanson 
(Hist. Nat. xii. 326) say that it is " all pale red," and Buflfon further observes that it has not the white on 
the belly of the Gazelles. This does not agree with our animal, which is white in several parts, but cer- 
tainly not so white as the Gazelle, and has black on the legs ; but as yet no other animal has been brought 
from West Africa, which better agrees with their account or figure. 
M. Sundevall considers the Nagor of Senegal and the Bohor of Abyssinia, which were in the Frank- 
fort Museum, as distinct, the former having the hair of the back whorled, the fore leg with a dark stripe, 
and the latter having the hair not whorled and the legs pale. Our specimens, from Gambia, have the hair 
not whorled, and more or less distinct streaks on the fore-legs ; hence I am inclined to believe the Nagor 
and the Bohor to be alike. Sundevall's animal may be the Kob, but that has only one whorl on each end 
of the back, a nearly cervine muffle, and the end of the tail black. 
There is a male and a female of Antilope Bohor, from Abyssinia, in the Frankfort Museum. The male 
is rather larger than the male oi " A. redunca," from Senegal, in the same collection, and much brighter, 
and the horns more slender ; the females are darker and browner than the male ; both have more black 
on the carpus and tarsus than in the specimen of A. redunca in the same museum. 
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