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Show 98 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON [Feb. 2, 7. COBUS VARDONI. Antilope vardoni, Livingstone, Miss. Trav. p. 256 (Barotsi Valley), and pi. p. 71. Heleotragus vardoni, Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 657 (Zambesia). Onotragus vardonii, Gray, Cat. Rum. (1872), p. 17. Cobus vardoni, Selous, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 759 ; id. Wand. pp. Ill, 147, 219, pi. v. Vardon's Antelope was found occasionally by Mr. Sharpe about the south end of Lake Tanganyika, and in vast numbers on the route between Tanganyika and Lake Mocro. It goes in large herds 1. I exhibit a fine pair of horns of this species procured by Mr. Sharpe. 8. TRAGELAPHUS ANGASI, Gray. Tragelaphus angasi, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 487. Mr. Sharpe brings a flat skin of what is apparently a male of this Antelope, hitherto not known to occur so far north. He gives me the following notes on it:- " This Antelope is found in a piece of thick scrubby country bordering the Moanza, which enters the Shire on the right bank near the Murchison cataracts. I have never seen it alive myself, but have heard of it frequently from the natives, by whom it is called ' Bo'-the o being pronounced very long. " It frequents the thick scrub, and only occasionally comes out to the edges of the grass-flats. "I have never heard of it in any other part of Nyassaland." 5. O n a N e w Antelope from Somaliland, and on some other Specimens of Antelopes from the same Country. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received January 28, 1892.] (Plate V.) I have now the pleasure of exhibiting the skull and scalp of apparently new Antelope of the genus Bubalis, which I propose to name B. swaynei, after Capt. II. G. C. Swayne, R.E., who has kindly furnished me with the specimen. The existence of an Antelope of this form in Northern Somaliland has long been known to me (cf. P. Z. S. 1885, p 932), but it is only within the last few days that I have succeeded in obtaining specimens of it. In a series of Mammals from Somaliland lately received from Capt. Swayne are a good adult skull and head-skin of what he terms the "Hartebeest" or " Sig " of the Somalis. One glance at this 1 Cf. Sharpe, Pr. E. Geogr. Soc. 1892, p. 39. |