(Brooke.)
The main distinguishing feature of Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest is the short and thick basal portion of its horns, which induces us to place it in a section by itself, and which renders it easily recognizable from the seven preceding species of this genus. This character is well shown in the accompanying woodcuts (figs. 6 a and 6 b). Figure 6 a, prepared under the superintendence of Sir Victor Brooke, shows the skull of a male of this species; fig. 6 b, p. 50 (which has been kindly lent to us by the Zoological Society of London) represents, as we now believe, the skull of a female, though originally supposed by Mr. Crawshay to belong to a young male.
Fig. 6 b.
Skull of Bubalis lichtensteini, ♀.
(P. Z. S. 1890, p. 662.)
Our coloured figure of this Antelope (Plate V.) was prepared by Mr. Smit from a male specimen (now in the British Museum) which was shot on the River Sabi by Mr. Selous in July 1885. Besides this, the National Collection contains a stuffed female from the same locality, and a series of skulls and skins from Nyasaland, transmitted by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C.B., F.Z.S., and other specimens from the Manica plateau (Selous) and Usagara (Kirk).
May, 1894.
Genus II. DAMALISCUS.
| Type. | |
| Damalis, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 233 (1846), et auctorum plurimorum, nec Ham. Sm. | D. Lunatus. |
| Damaliscus, nomen novum | D. Pygargus. |