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
_Kobus ellipsiprymnus_, =Smith=, Ill. Zool. S. Afr., Mamm. pls.
xxviii. & xxix. (1840); =Gray=, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p.
232 (1846); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 130; =id.= Knowsl. Men. p.
15 (1850); =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 99 (1852); =id.= Cat. Rum.
B. M. p. 15 (1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. p. 86 (1873); =id.= Ann.
Mag. N. H. (3) iv. p. 296 (1859) (White Nile, _Petherick_);
=Gerrard=, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 239 (1862); =Scl.= P. Z. S.
1864, p. 101 (Uzaramo, _Speke_); =Fitz.= SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt.
1, p. 176 (1869); =Drummond=, Large Game S. Afr. p. 426 (1875);
=Brehm=, Thierl. iii. p. 224, fig. (animal) (1880); =Flow. &
Gars.= Cat. Ost. Coll. Surg. p. 268 (1884); =Jent.= Cat. Ost.
Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 131 (1887); =id.= Cat. Mamm.
Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 159 (1892); =id.= N. L. M. ix. p.
172 (1887); =Nicolls & Egl=. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 44 (1892);
=True=, Pr. U. S. N. M. xv. p. 471 (Taveta, B. E. A.) (1892).
_Antilope_ (_Aigoceros_) _ellipsiprymna_, =Less.= N. Tabl. R.
A., Mamm. p. 180 (1842).
_Kobus ellipsiprymnus_, =Gray=, List Mamm. B. M. p. 159 (1843).
_Aigoceros ellipsiprymnus_, =A. Smith=, S. Afr. Q. J. ii. p. 186
(1835).
_Cervicapra ellipsiprymnus_, =Sund.= Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl.
1844, p. 195 (1846); =id.= Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand.
Beitr. ii. p. 147 (1848).
_Heleotragus ellipsiprymnus_, =Kirk=, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 658
(Zambesia).
_Cobus ellipsiprymnus_, =Buckley=, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 284;
=Selous=, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 758; =id.= Hunter’s Wanderings,
p. 218 (1881); =Crawshay=, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 651 (Nyasaland);
=Hunter=, in Willoughby’s E. Afr. p. 288 (1889); =Scl.= P. Z.
S. 1891, p. 326, 1892, p. 471, 1893, p. 505, pl. xxxix. (female
from life and young), et p. 727; =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 340
(1891); =Lyd.= Field, lxxvii. p. 980 (1891); =id.= Horns and
Hoofs, p. 223 (1893); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 86 (1892); =Thomas=,
P. Z. S. 1893, p. 504; =Bryden=, Gun and Camera, p. 504 (1893);
=Barkley=, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 131; _Swayne_, P. Z. S. 1894, p.
316 (Somaliland); =id.= Somaliland, p. 307; =Matschie=, Thierw.
Ost-Afr. Säugeth. p. 123, fig. (animal) (1895).
_Cobus_, sp. inc., =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1892, p. 118 (Somaliland).
VERNACULAR NAMES:--_Waterbuck_ of the English at the Cape and
elsewhere; _Kringgat_ or _Waterbok_ of the Dutch; _Tumoga_ of
the Bechuanas; _Sidumuga_ of the Amandebele; _Ee-tumaha_ of
the Makalakas; _Ee-kulo_ of the Masubias; _Umkulamdumbo_ of
the Makubas; _Mukulo_ of the Batongas; _Gwelung-gwelee_ of the
Masaras (according to Selous); _Nakodzwi_ or _Nyakodzwi_ of the
Ajawa and of the Anyanja; _Ipiva_ of the Angoni; _Chuzu_ of the
Achewa, Atonga, Atembuka, Ahenga, and Anyika; and _Lipuwa_ of
the Ankonde in Nyasaland (_Crawshay_); _Kulu_, _Kuru_, or _Kuro_
of the Swahilis (_Neumann_); _Balanka_ of the Adone Negroes;
_Balango_ of the Somalis (_Swayne_).
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