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Show 1905.] A NEW BUSH-BUCK. 181 T r a g e l a p h u s h a y w o o d i Thos * Thos. Abstr. P. Z. S. No. 21, p. 9, June 13, 1905. A large heavily-built member of the group of small species without a definite short-haired collar. Under surface darker than upper. Fur comparatively coarse and long throughout, the hairs of the back 35-40 mm. in length. General colour very dark, the nape black; the fore-quarters blackish brown (near " seal-brown "), passing into dark reddish brown (" Vandyke-brown ") on the middle back and deeper rufous (dark " tawny ") on the rump. Sides gradually darkening downwards to the wholly black belly. Dorsal crest black as far as the withers, then whitish mixed with some black hairs. Three inconspicuous transverse whitish stripes on each side. No longitudinal bands, but a few white spots on the sides of the rump. Shoulders and proximal part of limbs deep black, succeeded by tawny below. (Feet unfortunately lost in the type.) Top of muzzle nearly black, with prominent interorbital whitish streaks nearly touching-each other in the middle line. Forehead and crown deep ferruginous. Cheeks tawny ochraceous. Two white spots on each side behind and below the eyes. Ears thinly haired, dull tawny brown with blackish edges; hairs of inner surface white. Chin and interramia white and a large throat-spot duller white; between this and the white chest-band the throat was glossy blackish, mixed with some tawny hairs. White axillary and inguinal patches present. Tail dark tawny, white below. Skull very large and heavy for one of the smaller members of the genus, much larger than in T. scriptus or sylvaticus. Median palatal notch rather farther forward than the lateral ones. Palatal foramina comparatively long. Horns also very powerful, thick and strongly ridged, much finer than those of any of the allied forms. Skull dimensions of type :- Greatest length 265 mm.; basal length 247 ; greatest breadth 112; muzzle to orbit 134; muzzle to front of p3 77 ; length of palatal foramina 36. Length of upper tooth-series 72, of three upper premolars 31. Horns: length in straight line 400 ; on anterior ridge 470 ; greatest basal diameter 59 ; basal circumference 171. Jlcob. Nyei'i, Kenya District, British East Africa. Altitude 6000 feet. Type. Full-grown male. B.M. No. 5.5.16.3. Collected and presented by C. W. Haywood, Esq. Mr. Oscar Neumann f had sorted the smaller species of Tragelaphus into two groups, characterised by the presence or absence of the peculiar collar of short hairs which had been so * [The complete account of the new species described in this communication appears here; but since the name and preliminary diagnosis were published in the ‘ Abstract,' th e species is distinguished by the name being underlined.-E d i t o k .] f SB. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 1902, p. 98. |