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Show 504 MR. O. THOMAS ON MAMMALS FROM NYASALAND. [May 16, be certain as to whether the absence of the black stripe old age (as said by Smith), youth (as said by Wagner), season, or locality. 22. MYOSCALOPS ARGENTEO-CINEREUS, Pet. a-j. 10 ad. & imm. sks. Zomba. 10/92. 23. POTAMOCHCERUS LARYATUS, F. CuV. a. Ad. sk. & skull. Zomba. b, c. 2 yg. sks. Zomba. 11/92. 24. BUBALIS LICHTENSTEINI, Pet. a. Ad. sk. & skull. Zomba. This specimen, equally with that mentioned in the previous paper (p. 553), has the whitish rump referred to by Dr. Matschie as characteristic of his B. leucoprymnus \ Since both individuals were obtained, however, at quite a short distance from the typical localities (Tette and Sena on the Zambesi) of Peters's species, there can be no doubt that they represent the true lichtensteini. Whatever therefore may be the differences in the horns between " lichtensteini " and " leucoprymnus," it is clear that the whiteness of rump in the northern form cannot be used as a distinguishing character. 25. OREAS CANNA, H. Sm. a. Ad. skull. $ . Zomba. 26. HIPPOTRAGUS NIGER, Harr. a, b. 2 ad. skulls. Zomba. 27. TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS ROUALEYNI, Gord.-Cumm. a-f. 6 skins. Zomba. These specimens belong clearly to tbe Lower Zambesi form, their white markings, although very variable, being far less developed than in the Chobe Biver Bush-buck, assigned in 1891 to the true T. scriptus typicus, Pall.'2 28. NANOTRAGUS SCOPARIUS, Schr. a. Ad. sk. <3. Zomba. 29. COBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS. a-d. 4 skulls. Zomba. 30. CEPHALOLOPHUS GBIMMIUS, L. a. Ad. sk. & skull. Zomba. 1 SB. Ges. nat. Fr. 1892, p. 137. 2 P. Z. S. 1891, p. 380. |
