. The book of antelopes . e typical 0. scoparia, butconsiders that it differs in its longer ears, the smaller size of the naked spotbeneath the ear, the white underside of the tail, and the less compressedform of the hoofs. Peterss specimens are in the Berlin Museum. More recently the British Museum has acquired several skins of anAntelope, which should be the same, to judge from its locality, as Peterss0. hastata, among the splendid collections amassed by Sir H. H. Johnston inNyasaland with the aid of his naturalist Mr. Alexander Whyte, Thesewere obtained on the grassy plains between Z
. The book of antelopes . e typical 0. scoparia, butconsiders that it differs in its longer ears, the smaller size of the naked spotbeneath the ear, the white underside of the tail, and the less compressedform of the hoofs. Peterss specimens are in the Berlin Museum. More recently the British Museum has acquired several skins of anAntelope, which should be the same, to judge from its locality, as Peterss0. hastata, among the splendid collections amassed by Sir H. H. Johnston inNyasaland with the aid of his naturalist Mr. Alexander Whyte, Thesewere obtained on the grassy plains between Zomba, where Mr. Whyte isresident, and Lake Shirwa. These materials, however, are not yet sufficientto enable us to pronounce a decided opinion as to whether this Oribi shouldbe really treated of as a species distinct from its brother of the Cape two forms certainly come very near one another, and we are ratherdoubtful whether they can be properly distinguished. December, 1895. THE BOOK OF A]N TEL OPES ,PL f^i^te^K -Ssigiisii-. Jf8>, iy.:f,iOUREBIA NIGRICAUDATA lianhart m Fuc vj-ifl t;Jntci-ur 43. THE GAMBIAN ORIBL OUEEBIA NIGEICAUDATA (Bkooke).[PLATE XXVI.] Ourebi du Senegal, F. Cuv. H. N. Mamm. (fol.) iii. livr. Ix. (?) (1829).Scopophorus montanus, Gray, Knowsl. Men. p. 7, pi. v. (animal) (1850) (Gambia) (nee Cretzschm.).Nanotragus nigricaudatus, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 874, pi, Ixxv. (animal) (Gambia); Ward, Horn Meas. p. 81 (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 219 (1893).Oreotragus scoparius, Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. nigricaudatus, Scl. List An. Z. S. (8) p. 145 (1883). Vernactjlar Name :—Gebari or Mahomets Antelope on the Gambia {). Closely allied to 0. montana, but still smaller, and the general colourgreyer; the auricular gland as large as in 0. hastata, and the tail with ablackish tuft, as in 0. scoparia. Top of muzzle brown. Dimensions of the typical specimen, 6 :—Height at withers 21 inches ;length o
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