FOOTNOTES:
[1] Besides the normally coloured specimens of Steinbok and Grysbok found so commonly in various parts of the Cape Colony, there occasionally occur pale-coloured, more or less albino, examples to which the names “Bleekbok” and “Vlackte-Steenbok” have been applied by the Dutch.
On such albinistic individuals the following synonymy rests, but whether the names really belong to the Steinbok or to the Grysbok, or some to one and some to the other, it is quite impossible and of little importance now to determine:—
Antilope tragulus pallida, Licht. Mag. nat. Freund. vi. p. 177 (1814); Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 376 (1844).
Antilope pallida, H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 251, v. p. 342 (1827).
Antilope pediotragus, Afzel. N. Act. Ups. vii. pp. 260 & 264 (1815); Goldf. Schr. Säug. v. p. 1236 (1818); Smuts, En. Mamm. Cap. p. 84 (1832); Gerv. Dict. Sci. Nat. Supp. i. p. 262 (1840); Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 177 (1842).
Tragulus pediotragus, A. Sm. S. Afr. Quart. J. ii. p. 213 (1834).
Antilope rufescens, H. Sm. Griff. An. K. iv. p. 249, v. p. 341 (1827); Less. N. TabL R. A., Mamm. p. 177 (1842); Schinz, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 412 (1845).
Calotragus melanotis pallida, Gray, Knowsl. Men. p. 7 (1850); id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 72 (1852).
Calotragus rufescens, Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 192 (1853).
Pediotragus rufescens, Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 165 (1892).
[2] Nauwkeurige Beschryving van de Guinese Goud-Tand en Slave-Kust. Door Willem Bosman. Utrecht, 1704.
[3] See “On Mr. E. Lort Phillips’s Collection of Birds from Somali-land,” by Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S., Ibis, 1885, p. 389, plates x.-xii., and another article which will appear in ‘The Ibis’ for January 1896.
[4] We are indebted to the authorities of the Smithsonian Institution for a series of measurements of the hoofs of the Kilimanjaro Dik-diks collected by Dr. Abbott. These measurements have helped materially to bring us to the conclusion we have come to above, as their wide range of variation shows that certain differences in the hoof-lengths that we had previously noted in the different forms cannot be regarded as of any value for distinguishing the species, and must merely be due to individual variation.
[5] “A Journey from the Shiré River to Lake Mweru and the Upper Luapula,” Geogr. Journ. i. p. 524.
[6] At Rhodesia, at the extreme N.E. corner of Lake Mweru, 8° 39’ 28’’ S. lat. See Geogr. Journ. i. p. 527.
[7] “On the Antelopes of Nyasaland,” by Richard Crawshay, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 648.
[8] See his work ‘Egypt, Sudan, and the White Nile,’ London, Blackwood & Co., 1861.
[9] ‘Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries,’ by Mr. and Mrs. Petherick. 2 vols. London: Tinsley Bros., 1869.
[10] The Antilope lervia, of Pallas (Spic. Zool. xii. p. 12) has been referred to this species by some authors; but that name is clearly based on Shaw’s Lerwea (‘Travels in Barbary,’ p. 243), which, as Gray has rightly pointed out, is referable to the Barbary Sheep (Ovis tragelaphus).
[11] In his paper on the generic subdivision of the Bovidæ, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 170.
[12] Dr. Günther, using the name given by Gray, speaks of this skull as that of C. redunca, but it certainly belongs to C. fulvorufula.
[13] In Sclater’s List of Speke’s Mammals (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 103) this skull was referred to “Kobus, sp. inc.”
[14] This reference was put down on a previous occasion (Vol. II. p. 23) to Ourebia nigricaudata, but on finding that Schinz’s name depended on it, a more careful study of the figure and description has been made, and we now consider that Sundevall’s reference of it to the Nagor was probably correct.
[15] In the southern part of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
[16] See Geogr. Journ. ii. p. 534 (1893).
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1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original.
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