The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 4 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
_Tragelaphus delamerei_, =Pocock=, Ann. & Mag. N. H., Jan. 1900.
Of about the same size as _T. scriptus_. Head ruddy brown on the
forehead, with a blackish band extending down the muzzle; cheeks fawn,
with two small white spots; no white stripe running inwards from the
corner of the eye; edge of upper lip and chin white; white patches at
upper and lower ends of throat small, the former only just traceable.
General colour of body dark yellowish brown above, paler below, and
gradually passing into yellowish fawn upon the shoulder and upon the
lower half of the hind-quarters. No traces of white stripes or spots
observable either upon the body or upon the hind-or fore-quarters. Fore
legs both outside and inside right up to the base yellowish brown,
blackish all down the front from above the knee to the fetlocks;
fetlocks and pasterns black, except for a pair of white spots on the
pasterns in front. Hind legs coloured like fore legs, but paler above
the hock and marked with a distinct white patch in front of the hock.
Tail white below, dark at the tip. A collar of short hairs round the
base of the neck. No long crest of hairs along the spine.
_Hab._ Somaliland.
A single nearly adult example of this species (fig. 102, p. 130),
remarkable for the absence of white on the inner sides of the legs
and on the body, was procured by Lord Delamere on his last sporting
expedition into Somaliland at a place called “Sayer,” and was kindly
presented by him to the British Museum.
The specimen in question was examined by the person who skinned it
for Lord Delamere, and, according to his evidence, was ascertained to
be of the _male_ sex. But in the face of its bearing no traces
of horns we are hardly disposed to accept this statement, which may
well have been made in error. Even, however, if we take it to be the
_female_ of a _Tragelaphus_, we are unable to refer it to any
known species, and we therefore insert it in what would seem to be its
proper place under the name attached to it by Mr. Pocock.
[Illustration:
Fig. 102.
Delamere’s Bushbuck.
]
The accompanying figure of Delamere’s Bushbuck has been prepared from
the typical specimen in the British Museum.
_November_, 1899.
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES. PL. XCI.
_J. Smit del. et lith._
_Hanhart imp._
The Broad Horned Antelope.
TRAGELAPHUS EURYCEROS.
_Published by R. H. Porter._
]
125. THE BROAD-HORNED ANTELOPE.
TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS (Ogilby).
[PLATE XCI.]
_Antilope_, sp., =Afz.= N. Acta Upsal. vii. p. 269, pl. viii. fig. 3;
=H. Sm.= Griff. An. K. v. p. 361 (?).
_Antilope eurycerus_, =Ogilby=, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 120; =Waterh.= Cat.
Mus. Zool. Soc. (2) p. 42 (1838); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 190
(1853); =Huet=, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (4) iv. p. 468 (1887).
_Antilope (Addax) euryceros_, =Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 620
(1861).
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