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NOTE ON A NEW ANTELOPE 
By the Hon. Walter Rothschild 
Bubalis neumanni, sp. n. 
Mr. Arthur H. Neumann, during his recent travels in some of the most 
interesting parts of Africa, on the east shore of and to the north-east of 
Lake Rudolph, met with a hartebeeste which I cannot refer to any of the 
already known forms, and which I wish to name after its discoverer. I 
have before me two skulls with horns of a male and of a female, and the 
skin of the body of one. 
The horns differ widely from those of Bubalis major (Blyth) of West 
Africa, and B. buselaphus (Pall.) of Northern Africa and Arabia, in being 
slenderer and in their tips being inverted, instead of pointing outwards or 
straight behind. The nearest ally seems to be B. tora (Gray) of Upper 
Nubia, Abyssinia, and Ivordofan, which, however, has more slender horns, 
with more distinct rings, reaching almost round, a broader forehead, and 
a generally paler coloration. The horns also diverge much more in B. tora , 
as shown at a glance by the distances between the tips of the horns, 
as recorded in Rowland Ward’s Horn Measureme?its. B. neumanni has 
evidently nothing to do with Acronotus lelwel , Heugl. (JReise N.O.-AJr. ii. 
p. 124), in which the tips of the horns point straight outwards. Matschie 
has referred A. lelwel to the West-African Bubal, but Sclater and Thomas 
have more correctly placed it among the synonyms of B. buselaphus. 
However, a query should be added to the name, the description not being 
exact enough to make out what the name means. The type is not in the 
museum at Stuttgart, according to kind information of Professor Lampert, 
nor can it be found elsewhere at present. 
The horns of B. neumanni measure as follows :— 
Circumference at base, $ 273 millim., 9 183 ; total length along the 
curves, $ 420, $ 345 ; tip to tip, <$ 206, $ 249. 
The rings of the horns are not very prominent, and do not reach all 
round. 
Breadth of skull at forehead, 100 millim., <j> 80; length of skull 
from base of horn to upper lip, along the side in a straight line, $ 430, 
$ 403 millim. 
Colour of hair fulvous fawn, much richer on the back, where there are 
also some darker spots, which may be stains or natural; below, very much 
paler. Chin blackish, tip of tail black. The male is brighter and darker 
in colour than the female. There are also on the back some patches with 
longer, thicker, almost whitish-buff hair, perhaps remains of the winter fur. 1 
1 There is no winter in Equatorial Africa.—A. H. N. 
