Besides the skulls of both sexes obtained in Bornou by Denham and Clapperton, there are other skulls of this species in the National Collection, procured by Whitfield on the Gambia, and, more recently, in the same district by Dr. Percy Rendall. We much regret that we have no further details to offer upon this fine and interesting Antelope, of the life-history of which, as is the case with most of the West-African Antelopes, we know exceedingly little. The figure of this species (Plate VII.) was put upon the stone by Mr. Smit from a drawing by Mr. Wolf, probably taken from the specimens at Liverpool; but upon this point we are not quite certain.
January, 1895.
11. THE TIANG.
DAMALISCUS TIANG (Heugl.).
Bubalus lunatus, Sund. K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1842, pp. 201 & 243 (1843) (nec Burch.).
Bubalis koba, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Hand-l. 1844, p. 209 (1846); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 159; Reprint, p. 83 (1848) (nec Erxl.).
Damalis tiang, Heugl. Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leopold. xxx. pt. ii.) p. 22, pl. 1. fig. 1 (head) (♂) (1863); Fitz. SB. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 181 (1869); Matsch. SB. nat. Freund. Berl. 1892, p. 136 (distribution).
Damalis tiang-riel, Heugl. tom. cit. p. 23, pl. ii. fig. 9 (horns) (♀); Fitz. loc. cit.
Damalis senegalensis, Heugl. tom. cit. p. 22; Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (3) iv. p. 296 (1859) (Bahr-el-Ghazal, Petherick); Baker, Ismailia, pp. 68, 74.
Antilope senegalensis, Emin, Reise-Briefen, p. 144 (Magungo) (?).
Vernacular Names:—Tiang and Tian (Heuglin).