The book of antelopes, vol. 2 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 2 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
This species is so like _C. arundinum_ in its general external
characters that we have not thought it worth while to give a special
figure of it. Besides the skull in the National Collection presented
by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, and used for description by Dr. Günther, as
mentioned above, and the female head from Uganda obtained by Speke,
also already spoken of, there are in the British Museum two good
specimens, adult and young, presented by Major Kenrick. The more adult
of these, as Major Kenrick kindly informs us, was shot in July 1892,
about six miles east of Kiumengelia, at the north-east corner of the
Kilimanjaro range, and the younger one in August of the same year on
the banks of the Pangani River, both these places being now within the
limits of German East Africa.
Reedbucks, as we have already stated, do not, as a rule, do well in
captivity. The Zoological Society of London have on two occasions
(in 1877 and 1883) received female Reedbucks from East Africa which
have been referred with some doubt to the present species. In neither
instance, however, did they live long in the Society’s Gardens.
_February, 1897._
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XLIV.
_Wolf del., J. Smit lith._ _Hanhart imp._
The Nagor.
CERVICAPRA REDUNCA.
_Published by R. H. Porter._]
72. THE NAGOR.
CERVICAPRA REDUNCA (PALL.).
[PLATE XLIV.]
_Le Nagor_, =Buff.= Hist. Nat. xii. p. 326, pl. xlvi. (1764)
(Goree Isl., Senegambia).
_Antilope reversa_, =Pall.= Misc. Zool. p. 5 (1766) (nec _Capra
reversa_, L.).
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