DAMALISCUS HUNTERI.
Published by R. H. Porter
9. HUNTER’S ANTELOPE.
DAMALISCUS HUNTERI (Scl.).
[PLATE VI.]
Damalis hunteri, Scl. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 58 (woodcut of head), and p. 372, pl. xlii. (animal) (Tana R.); Hunter, in Willoughby’s E. Africa, p. 290, pl. iv. fig. 6 (head) (1889).
Alcelaphus hunteri, Lyd. Field, lxxvii. p. 858, fig. (head) (1891).
Alcelaphus (Damalis) hunteri, Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 336 (1891).
Bubalis hunteri, Ward, Horn Meas. p. 70, fig. (head) (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 200, fig. 40 (head) (1893).
Vernacular Name:—Herola of Gallas (Hunter).
Size medium, form more delicate and graceful than in most of the other species. Facial hairs wholly reversed upwards from the muzzle to the horns.
Colour uniform rufous, with no darker markings anywhere, on face, chin, or limbs, and the caudal crest even, black in every other species, is here wholly white. On the face, however, there is a well-defined white line passing from one eye to the other across the forehead. Lower part of rump not markedly lighter than upper.