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
[3] See “On Mr. E. Lort Phillips’s Collection of Birds from
Somali-land,” by Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S., Ibis, 1885, p. 389,
plates x.-xii., and another article which will appear in ‘The Ibis’ for
January 1896.
[4] We are indebted to the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution
for a series of measurements of the hoofs of the Kilimanjaro Dik-diks
collected by Dr. Abbott. These measurements have helped materially to
bring us to the conclusion we have come to above, as their wide range
of variation shows that certain differences in the hoof-lengths that
we had previously noted in the different forms cannot be regarded as
of any value for distinguishing the species, and must merely be due to
individual variation.
[5] “A Journey from the Shiré River to Lake Mweru and the Upper
Luapula,” Geogr. Journ. i. p. 524.
[6] At Rhodesia, at the extreme N.E. corner of Lake Mweru, 8° 39’ 28’’
S. lat. See Geogr. Journ. i. p. 527.
[7] “On the Antelopes of Nyasaland,” by Richard Crawshay, P. Z. S.
1890, p. 648.
[8] See his work ‘Egypt, Sudan, and the White Nile,’ London, Blackwood
& Co., 1861.
[9] ‘Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile
Tributaries,’ by Mr. and Mrs. Petherick. 2 vols. London: Tinsley Bros.,
1869.
[10] The _Antilope lervia_, of Pallas (Spic. Zool. xii. p. 12) has
been referred to this species by some authors; but that name is clearly
based on Shaw’s Lerwea (‘Travels in Barbary,’ p. 243), which, as Gray
has rightly pointed out, is referable to the Barbary Sheep (_Ovis
tragelaphus_).
[11] In his paper on the generic subdivision of the Bovidæ, P. Z. S.
1851, p. 170.
[12] Dr. Günther, using the name given by Gray, speaks of this skull
as that of _C. redunca_, but it certainly belongs to _C.
fulvorufula_.
[13] In Sclater’s List of Speke’s Mammals (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 103) this
skull was referred to “_Kobus_, sp. inc.”
[14] This reference was put down on a previous occasion (Vol. II. p.
23) to _Ourebia nigricaudata_, but on finding that Schinz’s name
depended on it, a more careful study of the figure and description has
been made, and we now consider that Sundevall’s reference of it to the
Nagor was probably correct.
[15] In the southern part of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
[16] See Geogr. Journ. ii. p. 534 (1893).
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