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Show 58 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON DAMALIS HUNTERT. [Feb. 19, Mr. Sclater exhibited some heads and skins of Antelopes shot by Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, F.Z.S., on the north side of the river Tana, N.E. Africa, and pointed out that they appeared to belong to a new species of the genus Damalis, which he proposed to call Damalis Head of Damalis hunteri. (From a photograph forwarded by Mr. Hunter.) hunteri after its discoverer. It was said to be allied to Damalis senegalensis, but at once distinguishable by the long upstanding tips of the horns, and the white band across the forehead. Mr. Hunter |