[Illustration: THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XCIII. _Wolf del. Smit lith._ _Hanhant imp._ Speke’s Sitatunga. LIMNOTRAGUS SPEKII. _Published by R. H. Porter._ ] 127. SPEKE’S SITATUNGA. LIMNOTRAGUS SPEKII (Sclater). [PLATE XCIII.] _Tragelaphus spekii_, =Sclater=, in Speke’s Journ. of Discov. p. 223 (1863); =id.= P. Z. S. 1864, p. 103, pl. xii., 1880, p. 452, 1883, pp. 34–37; =Heugl.= Reise Weiss. Nil, p. 319 (1869); =Brooke=, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 485 (part.); =id.= P. Z. S. 1878, p. 884; =Huet=, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (4) iv. p. 83 (1887); =Thos.= P. Z. S. 1891, p. 388 (part.); =Flow. & Lyd.= Mamm. p. 347 (1891) (part.); =Ward=, Horn Meas. p. 155 (1892); =id.= Records, p. 197 (1896), (2) p. 292 (1899) (part.); =Lugard=, Rise E. Afr. Emp. i. p. 533 (1893); =Lyd.= Horns and Hoofs, p. 254 (1893); =id.= Royal Nat. Hist. ii. p. 276 (1894) (part.); =Jackson=, Big Game Shooting, p. 311 (1894); =Matsch.= Säug. Deutsch- Ost-Afr. p. 139 (1895); =Trouessart=, Cat. Mamm. p. 958 (1898) (part.); =Gedge=, in Ward’s Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 476 (1899). _Eurycerus (Hydrotragus) spekii_, =J. E. Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 49 (1872) (part.). _Eurycerus spekii_, =Gray=, Hand-l. Rum. p. 119 (1873) (part.). _Tragelaphus spekii spekii_, =Rothschild=, Novit. Zool. v. p. 206 (1898). Vernacular Names:—_Nzoé_ of Karagweh (_Speke_); _Chobé_ or _Njobé_ of Uganda (_Gedge_). _Adult male._ Height at the withers about 36 inches. General colour a tolerably uniform greyish brown, greyer on the sides of the neck; a dark median dorsal line running down the nape, over the withers, and then passing into white in the middle line of the back. Head with white ocular and cheek-spots and white chin, as in the other species of the genus. A few pale spots low down on the hind-quarters, an indistinct line of similar spots extending along the sides above the belly, and in the adult at last only very ill-defined white stripes on the body. Legs of a richer and darker brown than the body; fore legs pale behind the knee and down the inner side of the cannon-bone, the pastern-spots scarcely distinct; hind legs coloured like fore legs, but pale in front of the hock. Horns without a third twist. _Subadult male_ of a darker brown than the adult and with the white markings even less distinct. _Adult female._ Smaller than the male and of a rich dark red colour, blacker dorsally, with a dark spinal stripe and very faint indications of white stripes on the body. Fore legs blackish from above the knee; hind legs blackish from below the hock; pastern-spots distinct. _Young female_ more or less distinctly marked with white stripes and spots, and more yellowish in colour than the adult.