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Show 796 MR. 0L0FIELD THOMAS ON THE [Nov. 17, 65. PHACOCHCERUS JETHIOPICUS, Pall. (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 145.) o* skeleton. Zomba. 66. BUBALIS LICHTENSTEINI, Pet. (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 553; 1893, p. 504; 1894, p. 145.) 67. CoNNOCHiETES TAURINUS, Burch. a. Skin and skull. South end of Lake Chilwa. Presented by Mr. H. C. McDonald. This specimen is the type of the subspecies distinguished by Mr. Sclater as C. t.johnstoni1. 68. CEPHALOPHUS GRIMMI, Linn. (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 554; 1893, p. 504.) Zomba (A. Sharpe & A. Whyte). 69. OREOTRAGUS SALTATOR, Bodd. (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 533; 1894, p. 145.) 70. OUREBIA HASTATA, Pet. (P. Z. S. 1893, p. 504; 1894, p. 146 (Nanotragus scoparius).) Lake Shirwa (A. Whyte). 71. RAPHICEROS SHARPEI, sp. n. (Plate XXXIX.) a. Ad. skin: S. Southern Angoniland. Presented by Mr. Alfred Sharpe. A Baphiceros with the white markings of the Grysbok, but with the feet of the Steinbok. Size apparently rather less than in tbe Steinbok (B. campestris). General colour rich glossy fulvous rufous, much brighter than in either of the allied species. Mixed with the fulvous hairs there are, as in B. melanotls, a large number of perfectly white ones. Muzzle brown above, darkest in the middle line, but without the common sharply-defined nose-patch. Sides of muzzle dirty whitish ; cheeks and sides of neck fawn. Crown with a well-marked crescentic black marking, as in B. campestris. Ears large, very thinly haired externally, the hairs mostly white, black along the edges. Colouring of under surface and hmbs as in B. campestris. Tail short, above rufous mixed with white, like the back; below white. Horns of the single specimen (of the age of which I have no cranial evidence) conical, straight, little more than an inch long, very thick in proportion to their length, but already commencing to be ringed basally, within an inch from their tip. They are thus, wdiether young or old, quite unlike those of any other allied antelope, and would alone serve to distinguish the new species. Dimensions (approximate) of the type, a flat skin:-Length of 1 Supra, p. 616, pl. xxviii. See also p. 506. |
