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 angasi_, =G. F. Angas=, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 89, pls. iv. (♂),
v. (♀); =id.= Kaffirs Illustrated, p. 51, pl. xxix. (1849); =Gray=, P.
Z. S. 1850, p. 144; =id.= Knowsl. Menag. p. 27 (1850); =id.= Cat. Ung.
B. M. p. 138 (1852); =Proudf.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 199; =Baldwin=, Afr.
Hunt. p. 76 (1854); =Gerr.= Cat. Bones B. M. p. 246 (1862); =Fitz.=
SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 174 (1869); =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1871, p.
485; =id.= P. Z. S. 1878, p. 884 (cranial characters); =Buckley=, P.
Z. S. 1876, p. 285; =Thomas=, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 387; =Flow. & Lyd.=
Mamm. p. 347 (1891); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1892, p. 98 (Shiré R.); =Ward=,
Horn Meas. p. 157 (1892); =id.= Rec. Big Game, p. 200 (1896); =Lyd.=
Horns and Hoofs, p. 252 (1893); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1893, p. 729 (B. C.
Afr.); =Lyd.= Roy. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 275 (1894); =Rendall=, P. Z. S.
1895, p. 359 (R. Tembé); =Thomas=, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 798, 1897, p. 939
(B. C. Afr.); =Pousarg.= Ann. Sci. Nat. iv. p. 81 (1897); =Johnston=,
Brit. Centr. Africa, p. 305 (1897); =Rendall=, Novitat. Zool. v. p.
212 (1898); =Trouess.= Cat. Mamm. p. 957 (1898); =Selous=, =Sharpe=,
and =Neumann=, in Ward’s Great and Small Game of Africa, pp. 455–462,
fig. 39, & pl. xiii. fig. 4 (1899).
_Strepsiceros angasi_, =Turner=, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 171.
_Euryceros angasii_, =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 48 (1872); =id.= Hand-l.
Rum. B. M. p. 119 (1873).
Vernacular Names:—_Inyala_ of the Amatongas; _Bö_ of the Shiré
districts.
Height at withers of adult male about 42 inches; of lighter and more
graceful build than _T. eurycerus_. General colour of head,
neck, and body a slate-grey, with a tinge of yellowish red. Head with
forehead reddish, and area around eye fawn-coloured; upper lip and chin
white; two widely-separated white cheek-spots on each side; v-shaped
white nasal stripe distinct and mesially divided. Back of ear white
below, tan above. Neck distinctly darker in hue than the shoulder
and rest of the body; a transverse white patch at the lower end
of throat; no corresponding patch at upper extremity of throat.
Body from shoulder to root of tail marked with indications of about
fourteen pale transverse stripes, some six of these standing out more
clearly than the rest; a few white spots, mostly low down upon the
haunches. Tail nearly black above, at sides, and at tip; white below.
Fore legs black above the knee on the outer side and on inner side
halfway up to the chest; a large white patch above close to chest; knee
also white on inner side and behind; portion between knee and fetlock
a rich fawn-colour; fetlocks and pasterns black behind and above the
hoofs in front; a white spot on the inner side of fetlocks, and two on
front of the pastern. Hind leg coloured like the front leg, with the
front and inner side of the thigh and of the hock white, the two white
patches separated by a black band; no white patch on the inner side of
the fetlock.
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