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Show 1890.] PROF. G. B. HOWES ON HATTERIA. 357 and there is a head in the British Museum obtained by Sir John Kirk on the river Juba1. W e have also the present head now before us, obtained in the Tana valley ; and the " Senegal Antelope " is enumerated among those "seen up the Tana" by Sir Robert Harvey and his party in Sir John Willoughby's 'East Africa and its Big Game' (p. 283). I append a list of the principal references to this Antelope:- Le Koba, Buffon, Hist. Nat. xii. p. 267 (1764) (Senegal) (?). Senegal Antelope, Pennant, Synops. Quadrupeds, p. 38 (1771); id. Hist. Quadrupeds, p. 91 (1781) (?). Antilope senegalensis, Cuv. Diet. Sc. Nat. ii. p. 235 (1816). Antilope koba, Desm. N. D. d'H. N. ii. p. 167 (1816). Antilope senegalensis, Desm. Mammalogie, p. 457 (1820) (?). Antilope senegalensis, Children in Denham and Clapperton, Narrative of Travels in N . and Central Africa, p. 192 (1826). Damalis senegalensis, Ham. Smith, in Griff. An. K. v. p. 363 (1827). Antilope korrigum, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 103. Bubalis lunatus, Sund. Act. Stock. 1842, pp. 201, 243 (Sennaar). Bubalis koba, Sund. Exp. Pec. Syst. p. 159 (Sennaar) (1844). Damalis korrigum, Gray, List of Maram. in B. M . p. 158 (1843). Damalis senegalensis, Gray in Knowsl. Men. p. 21, t. xxi. (1850). Damalis senegalensis, Gray, Cat. of M a m m . in B. M . iii. Ungulata Furc. p. 126 (1852). Damalis tiang, Heuglin, Ant. u. Buff. Nordost-Afrika's, p. 22 (1863). Damalis senegalensis, Gray, Cat. Rum. in B. M . p. 45 (1872). Damalis senegalensis, Gray, Hand-list of Edentates &c. p. 115 (1873). Damalis senegalensis, Noack, Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 208 (1887). Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., exhibited some specimens of Hatteria showing the "pro-atlas" and vomerine teeth, and made the following remarks thereon:- " Pro-atlas."-His attention had been recently called, in conversation with Mr. Boulenger, to a specimen of Hatteria in which the "pro-atlas" was present only on the left side. The specimen in question was dissected by Mr. Ridewood, and was now among the exhibits in the index collection of the Natural History Museum. As the "pro-atlas" was present only on the left side in Albrecht's 1 Sir John Kirk writes to me, in reply to inquiries about this specimen, as follows:- " The Senegal Antelope, so far as I know, is first found on the east coast, to the north of the river Sabaki at Malimdi. It is common at Merereri in Formosa Bay, where it might be seen every day when I was shooting there. It was also common between L a m u and the river Juba, where I first shot it. So far as I a m aware it does not exist anywhere on the coast south of the Sabaki, but may be found further inland. In the Kilimanjaro district it is replaced by Alcelaphus cokii, and in the country opposite Zanzibar by the (so-called) A. lichtensteini, which, however, I suspect is not the same as A. lichtensteini, Peters, of the Zambesi region."-P. L. S. P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1890, No. XXV, 25 |