. The book of antelopes . te Nile and secureda pair of horns which are now in the Berlin Museum. But the only perfect examples of this scarce Antelope yet obtained arethose of Heuglin, of which two (an adult male and young one) are in theVienna Museum, and a third (an adult male) at Berlin. Herr Matschie hasmost kindly supplied us with full notes on the last-named specimen, whichhas also been examined by Sclater. * Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries, by Mr. andMrs. Petherick. 2 vols. London : Tinsley Bros., 1869. 125 In his Horns and Hoofs, Mr. Lydekker
. The book of antelopes . te Nile and secureda pair of horns which are now in the Berlin Museum. But the only perfect examples of this scarce Antelope yet obtained arethose of Heuglin, of which two (an adult male and young one) are in theVienna Museum, and a third (an adult male) at Berlin. Herr Matschie hasmost kindly supplied us with full notes on the last-named specimen, whichhas also been examined by Sclater. * Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries, by Mr. andMrs. Petherick. 2 vols. London : Tinsley Bros., 1869. 125 In his Horns and Hoofs, Mr. Lydekker casts some doubt as to the realdistinctness of C. maria from C. leucotis, but on this point we can assure himthere is no room for hesitation. No one who examines our beautiful pictureof this species (Plate XXXVII.), drawn by Smit from Mr. Wolfs originalsketch, will for a moment deny its perfect distinctness from Cobus leucotisand from every other known species of the group. August, 1896. THE BOOKOP ANTELOPES,\aTl. \. Wolf dd^JSniU hth TTie Y/l-jibe-eapecl KobCOBUS LEUCOTIS PuUislved Porter. Hunlt^ri imp 12; 64. THE WHITE-EARED KOB. COBUS LEUCOTIS (Light, et Pet.).[PLATE XXXVIII.] Antilope leiicotis, Licht. et Pet. MB. Ak. Bed. 1853, p. 164; iid. Abli. Ak. Berl. 1854,p. 96, pi. iii. (Sobat, Sennaar) ; Schweinf. Im Herzen v. Afr. i. pp. 213, 214,ii. p. 533 (1874) (Balir-el-Djur); Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 38; Emin,Keise-brief., pp. 99, 226 (1888) ; id. Transl. pp. 101,130, 228 ; Junker, Travels inAfr. p. 441 (1891). Kobus leucotis, Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 239 (1862); Gray, Cat. M. p. 16 (1872) ; id. Hand-1. Rum. B. M. p. 87 (1873). Hydrotragus leucotis, Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. 1, p. 175 (1869). Cervicapra leucotis, Baker, Ismailia, ii. p. 531 (1874) (Shooli country). Cobus leucotis, Ward, Horn Meas. (1) p. 91 (1892), (2) p. 124 (1896); Lyd. Hornsand Hoofs, p. 224 (1893). Adenota lechee, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) iv. p. 296 (1859) (Bahr-el-
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