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
About the year 1840 Whitfield, a collector employed by Lord Derby to
procure living animals for his private Menagerie, obtained specimens
of the Korrigum from the vicinity of Macarthy’s Island on the River
Gambia, and brought them safely to Knowsley. Here they seem to have
thriven and reproduced their kind, for on reference to the ‘Gleanings’
(published in 1850) there will be found a beautiful coloured figure by
Waterhouse Hawkins of a mother and young of this Antelope drawn from
life. It is a great misfortune that so few records were ever kept or,
at all events, ever published of the many fine and rare animals living
in this splendid collection. In the Derby Museum, now at Liverpool, are
two mounted specimens of this Antelope--we believe the only perfect
examples in this country. They are, no doubt, individuals formerly
living in the Knowsley Menagerie.
Herr Matschie is inclined to believe that certain specimens of a
_Damaliscus_ recently obtained by German collectors on the north
and west of Lake Victoria should be referred to the present species,
and not to _D. jimela_. This, if correct, would indicate a much
greater extension of the area of the Korrigum towards the east than we
should consider to be probable, and further evidence on the subject is
much wanted.
Besides the skulls of both sexes obtained in Bornou by Denham and
Clapperton, there are other skulls of this species in the National
Collection, procured by Whitfield on the Gambia, and, more recently, in
the same district by Dr. Percy Rendall. We much regret that we have no
further details to offer upon this fine and interesting Antelope, of
the life-history of which, as is the case with most of the West-African
Antelopes, we know exceedingly little. The figure of this species
(Plate VII.) was put upon the stone by Mr. Smit from a drawing by Mr.
Wolf, probably taken from the specimens at Liverpool; but upon this
point we are not quite certain.
_January, 1895._
11. THE TIANG.
DAMALISCUS TIANG (HEUGL.).
_Bubalus lunatus_, =Sund.= K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1842, pp. 201 &
243 (1843) (_nec_ Burch.).
_Bubalis koba_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p. 209
(1846); =id.= Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p.
159; Reprint, p. 83 (1848) (_nec_ Erxl.).
_Damalis tiang_, =Heugl.= Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act.
Leopold. xxx. pt. ii.) p. 22, pl. 1. fig. 1 (head) (♂) (1863);
=Fitz.= SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 181 (1869); =Matsch.= SB. nat.
Freund. Berl. 1892, p. 136 (distribution).
_Damalis tiang-riel_, =Heugl.= tom. cit. p. 23, pl. ii. fig. 9
(horns) (♀); =Fitz.= loc. cit.
_Damalis senegalensis_, =Heugl.= tom. cit. p. 22; =Gray=, Ann.
Mag. N. H. (3) iv. p. 296 (1859) (Bahr-el-Ghazal, Petherick);
=Baker=, Ismailia, pp. 68, 74.
_Antilope senegalensis_, =Emin=, Reise-Briefen, p. 144 (Magungo)
(?).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Tiang_ and _Tian_ (_Heuglin_).
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