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Show 238 MR. O. THOMAS ON NANOTRAGUS LIVINGSTONIANUS. [Mar. 14, The dimensions of Mr. Neumann's specimen, taken on the stuffed animal, a fully adult male, were as follows :- Height at withers 348 m m . ( = 13-75 inches). Length of head and body round curves, 596 ; ears from notch, 93 ; hind foot, without hoof, 170 ; tail, 76. Length of body (chest to rump in a straight line), 419. Skull-basal length, 111 ; greatest length, 124; greatest breadth, 59 ; gnathion to orbit, 60 ; muzzle in front of teeth, 3 2; length of tooth-series, 38*5 ; palate, length, 71. Horns, length 87, circumference at base 50. Head of Nanotragus livingstonianus. In the ' Field' for September last yearl Mr. Neumann had written an account of the distribution and habits of this Antelope, and had there stated that its native Zulu name was " Inhlengane," that its ordinary habitat was the bushy parts of the low country between the coast and the Bombo range, and that the present specimen, which had been killed on the Umkuzi River, represented the extreme southerly limit of its range. Further north he had heard of it in the neighbourhood of the Lower Limpopo and Komati rivers; and M r . Thomas's present identification of it with 1 ' Field,'lxxx. p. 368, Sept. 1892. |