The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 1 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
_Bubalis lichtensteini_, =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 195 (1853);
=Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 63, fig. (horns) (1892); =Nicholls & Egl.=
Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 46, pl. iv. fig. 14 (head) (1892); =Thos.=
P. Z. S. 1892, p. 533 (Nyasa), 1893, p. 504; =Scl.= P. Z. S.
1893, p. 506; =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 198 (1893); =Barkley=,
P. Z. S. 1894, p. 132 (Pungwe R.); =Jackson=, Big Game Shooting,
i. p. 290.
_Alcelaphus lichtensteini_, =Gerrard=, Cat. Bones Mam. B. M.
p. 243 (1862); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 44 (1872); =id.=
Hand-l. Rum. p. 115 (1873); =Buckley=, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 454
(distribution); =Selous=, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 763 (distribution);
=id.= Hunter’s Wanderings, p. 224, pl. vii. figs. 3 & 4 (head)
(1881); =Jent.= Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 139
(1887); =Crawshay=, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 662 (Nyasa); =Lyd.= Field,
lxxvii. p. 858 (1891); =Lugard=, E. Afr. i. p. 532, pl. p. 440
(head) (1893).
_Boselaphus lichtensteini_, =Kirk=, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 660
(Shupanga).
_Alcelaphus caama_, =Noack=, Zool. JB. ii. p. 208 (1887); =id.=
op. cit. vii. p. 593 (1893).
_Alcelaphus caama_ and _A. lichtensteini_, =Noack=, JB. Mus.
Hamb. ix. p. 11 (1891).
_Bubalis leucoprymnus_, =Matsch.= SB. nat. Freund. 1892, p. 137
(?).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Konze_ of Masubias; _Inkulanondo_ of
Mashunas (_Selous_); _Gondo_ in Tette; _Gondongo_ at Sena and
Boror; _Vacca de mato_ of Portuguese (_Peters_); _Nkozi_ of
Ahenga; _Kangosa_ of Awanyakyusa (_Crawshay_).
Size rather large; height at withers about 48 inches. General colour
fulvous, deeper and more rufous along the back. Chin, the usual
tail-crest, and the front of the lower part of all four limbs black.
Lower part of rump white or pale yellowish, contrasting markedly with
the dark rufous of its upper surface. No anteorbital tuft present.
Hairs of face reversed upwards from muzzle to horns, except on a median
patch, about four inches long, between the eyes, where they slant
downwards.
Skull with but little frontal elongation, the elevation bearing the
horns much broader and shorter than in the majority of the true
Hartebeests; on the other hand, the muzzle is unusually lengthened, so
that the total facial length is about equal to that of _B. caama_.
Basal length 14·7 inches, greatest breadth 7·2, muzzle to orbit 11·5,
length of face 17, breadth of forehead 6·1.
Horns comparatively short and thick, curved first outwards, then
upwards and inwards, and finally abruptly bent backwards, their
terminal portions nearly or quite parallel with each other, and
comparatively close together. The largest horns are just 20 inches in
length.
_Hab._ East Africa, north of the Sabi River, throughout
Nyasaland and Mozambique to Usagara, opposite Zanzibar.
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