. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Head of Abyssinian Bushbuck shot in the Webbe Shebeyle District, Somaliland,by H. G. C. Swayne. Of the following specimens some belong to the Abyssinian T. , but the one from the Hawash River represents T. s. multicolor^while the Somali examples may be either T. s. delauierei, or T. Length onfront curve. Circum-ference. Tip. Locality. Owner. -17 Somaliland Col. 11. G. C. Swayne. -i6i 6i 5 Do. ... A. H. Straker. -I2| 5i 3i Hawash Valley, Abyssini
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . Head of Abyssinian Bushbuck shot in the Webbe Shebeyle District, Somaliland,by H. G. C. Swayne. Of the following specimens some belong to the Abyssinian T. , but the one from the Hawash River represents T. s. multicolor^while the Somali examples may be either T. s. delauierei, or T. Length onfront curve. Circum-ference. Tip. Locality. Owner. -17 Somaliland Col. 11. G. C. Swayne. -i6i 6i 5 Do. ... A. H. Straker. -I2| 5i 3i Hawash Valley, Abyssinia Viscount Edmond de Poncins. -I3I 5^ 5i Harar, Abyssinia Prince de Lucinge. i3i 5S 44 Do. Ivor Buxton. I2| 5 5i Abyssinia .... W. D. James. 12 54 5* Do British Museum. III 6 5i Do A. E. Butter. Hi 4S 4i Do Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton II 4? 5i Do Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. II 5i 5 .Setit Valley Col. Ralph Vivian. II 4§ 2i Northern Abyssinia . British Museum. Owners measurements 3IO RECORDS OF BIG GAME. Horns of Nyala. From a specimen presented by Mr. Rowland Ward to the British Museum. The NYALA (Tragelaphus angasi).Nyala, Zulu. Bo, Nyasa. This representative of the bushbuck group is a large, deHcately builtspecies, standing about 3 feet 6 inches at the shoulder. Weight about250 to 300 lbs. In both sexes the hair is very long and coarse,but in the male the colour is dark greyish brown with a small numberof indistinct white stripes, while in the female it is bright reddishchestnut with more numerous and clearly defined stripes. The maleshave a fringe of long hair on the throat and the under-parts of thebody, and a white crest along the back. The lower part of the legs istan, and the hoofs are short. Distribution.—South-East Africa, including Zululand, Delagoa Bay, andNyasaland ; on the West Coast it has been reported from Angola,although this form may indicate a distinct local race. l,ength. On front r-. ■ i . cunt-. Straight. 26 3^k 244 29J 23 29a 25 29i 29} 24! 28^
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