The book of antelopes . eum by the well-known explorer dAnchieta. Of these the malewas stated to have come from Capangombe, the female from Humbe—two places both in the province of Mossamedes north of the CuneneRiver. M. Bocage distinguished the new species from JE. melampusprincipally by its black face, and dedicated it to the late Professor Peters,of Berlin, whose opinion agreed with his that it was distinct. It isprobable that the skull from the Cunene River, obtained by Heer Van derKellen in October 1885, and referred by Dr. Jentink, in his paper onMammals from Mossamedes, to 2E. melampus,
The book of antelopes . eum by the well-known explorer dAnchieta. Of these the malewas stated to have come from Capangombe, the female from Humbe—two places both in the province of Mossamedes north of the CuneneRiver. M. Bocage distinguished the new species from JE. melampusprincipally by its black face, and dedicated it to the late Professor Peters,of Berlin, whose opinion agreed with his that it was distinct. It isprobable that the skull from the Cunene River, obtained by Heer Van derKellen in October 1885, and referred by Dr. Jentink, in his paper onMammals from Mossamedes, to 2E. melampus, may belong properly toJE. petersi. In 1889 Capt. F. Cookson, during a sporting excursion into Hasholand or VOL. III. E 26 Kaokoland, in the neighbourhood of the Cunene River met with some twenty ormore specimens of this Antelope, and brought back a single head to head, mounted by Mr. Rowland Ward, was exhibited by Sclater at ameeting of the Zoological Society on June 17th, 1890, as an example of Fie. Front view of Lead of Angolan Pallah.(P. Z. S. 1890, p. 4G0.) JEpyceros petersi. The notice of Sclaters exhibition published in the Zoo-logical Societys Proceedings was accompanied by an illustration, which, bythe kindness of the Council of the Zoological Society, we are enabled toreproduce (fig. 48). The dimensions of these horns are given by Mr. Rowland 27 Ward, in his Records of Big Game (1896), as 18f inches in a straight lineand 22f on front curve, and the distance between the tips as 12| inches. So far as we know, this is all the evidence to be offered as to the existenceof this species, concerning which further particulars would be very is no example of it in the British Museum. August, 1897. e2 29 Genus III. SAIGA. Type. Saiga, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. xxvi (1843) S. tatarica. Coins, Wagner, Schrebers Saugeth. Suppl. iv. p. 419 (1844) . . S. tatarica. Size medium. Nose large, elongate, bent downwards, and inflated; thenostrils opening d
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