. The book of antelopes. Antelopes. 18 As we have already stated, both Heuglin and Baker confounded the Tora with the Bubal. In 1873 the British Museum first received specimens of this Antelope from the Bogos district west of Massowa. The keen eye of the then keeper of the Zoological Department quickly recognized the essential differences of the new species from the previously known members of the Fig. Head of Bubalis tora. (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 762.) genus, and it was briefly described, first in ' Nature ' and afterwards in the ' Annals of Natural History.' In December of the same year Sclat
. The book of antelopes. Antelopes. 18 As we have already stated, both Heuglin and Baker confounded the Tora with the Bubal. In 1873 the British Museum first received specimens of this Antelope from the Bogos district west of Massowa. The keen eye of the then keeper of the Zoological Department quickly recognized the essential differences of the new species from the previously known members of the Fig. Head of Bubalis tora. (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 762.) genus, and it was briefly described, first in ' Nature ' and afterwards in the ' Annals of Natural History.' In December of the same year Sclater exhibited a mounted head of this Antelope at one of the meetings of the Zoological Society, from whose ' Proceedings' the accompanying figure of the specimen in question (fig. 2) has been borrowed by leave of the Publication Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, ill; Williams, Alpheus F. , former owner. DSI; National Zoological Park (U. S. ), former owner. DSI; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI. London : R. H. Porter
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