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Show 372 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON HUNTER'S ANTELOPE. [June 18, Fisch. & Rchw. J. f. 0. 1879, p. 337 ; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. 1884, p. 390; id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 115; Rchw. J. f. O. 1887, p. 46; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 245. 3. Useri river, July 18. 95. VANELLUS SPECIOSUS. Hoplopterus speciosus, Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 391 ; id. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 116 ; Rchw. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 47; Matsch. t. c. p. 138. Vanellus speciosus (Licht.), Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 221. o* 2 ' Kilimanjaro, swamps on the east side, June 24. 4. Description of Hunter's Antelope. By P. L. SCLATER., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Eeceived June 18, 1889.] (Plate XLII.) At the meeting of this Society held on the 12th of February last I exhibited specimens of a very fine new Antelope, recently discovered by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, F.Z.S., in Eastern Africa, and proposed to name it after its discoverer Damalis hunteri1. I have now had time to make a closer examination of Mr. Hunter's specimens and to complete my description of this interesting species, of which I exhibit a water-colour sketch, kindly prepared for us by Mr. Wolf from one of the skins (Plate XLII.). As will be at once.manifest from an inspection of the drawing and the specimens themselves, Hunter's Antelope belongs to the genus Damalis, if this be kept separate from Alcelaphus, being allied in most points of structure to the Korrigum or Senegal Hartebeest (Damalis senegalensis). But it has the frontal part of the skull slightly more elongated than in D. senegalensis, and in this respect shows a divergence towards the genus Alcelaphus. It may be characterized as follows :- DAMALIS HUNTERI. (Plate XLII.) Fusco-castaneus unicolor, in dorso paulo saturatior: linea inter oculos, in medio fronte ascendente, alba; oculorum ambitu et auribus intus, necnon cauda et gastrceo medio albis: artubus intus pallidioribus : cornubus nigris, rotundatis, fortiter annel-latis, extrorsum et retrorsum curvatis, deinde linea fere paralleli exsurgentibus ; apicibus leevigatis vix convergentibus. Alt. ad humeros circa 48*0, long. corp. 48*0, caudee 15*0, aurium 6*0, 1 See P. Z. S. 1889, p. 58 ; and ' Field,' March 23, 1889 (vol. lxxiii. |