. The game animals of Africa . is characterised by its largesize, and by the general colour being paler than in Jiarnieri, althoughthe forehead is a brighter rufous, forming a more decided contrastwith the general tone of colour than in either of the two record horns belong to this form, the three longest specimensmentioned in Records of Big Game being one from near Toru measuring BEFASSA OR SING-SIA^G 201 35^ inches, and two from Uganda, measuring respectively 34 and32^ inches. The Mweru race {C. d. crazvsJiayi), from the Lake Mvveru districtand other parts of British Central Af
. The game animals of Africa . is characterised by its largesize, and by the general colour being paler than in Jiarnieri, althoughthe forehead is a brighter rufous, forming a more decided contrastwith the general tone of colour than in either of the two record horns belong to this form, the three longest specimensmentioned in Records of Big Game being one from near Toru measuring BEFASSA OR SING-SIA^G 201 35^ inches, and two from Uganda, measuring respectively 34 and32^ inches. The Mweru race {C. d. crazvsJiayi), from the Lake Mvveru districtand other parts of British Central Africa, described by Dr. P. on p. 726 of the Zoological Societys Proceedings for 1893,appears to be more distinct than the three preceding forms. Thecolour of the back is, for instance, described as being dark iron-grey,approximating to that of the true waterbuck, but darker, and passinginto blackish on the back of the neck, upper part of the legs, andtail ; while on the flanks it becomes lighter and greyer, gradually. Fig. 42.—Sing-Sing cit Woburn Abbey, from a photograph by the Duchess of Bedford. passing into whitish on the under-parts. All the known horns of thisrace are relatively small as compared with the Uganda race, themaximum recorded length being 29 inches. With the Gambian race, or sing-sing {^C. d. singsing), we againcome to a rufous type near akin to the typical Abyssinian race, butwith a smaller amount of white in the neighbourhood of the eye. Therange of this race includes Sierra Leone and a large part of Nigeria. Most distinct of all is the Angola race {C. d. penricei), described bythe Hon. Walter Rothschild in Novitates Zoologicce for 1895 (vol. 52) on the evidence of specimens obtained by Mr. G. W. Penriceabout one hundred miles south-west of Benguela. In the original 202 ANTELOPES description this race (there regarded as a species) is stated to bedistinguishable from its alHes by its intensely blackish colour. Themuzzle is whitish ; the face
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