As already mentioned, v. Heuglin met with this Antelope during his lengthened explorations on the Upper Nile and its affluents. He described it in his memoir on the Antelopes and Buffaloes of North-east Africa (published in 1863 in the ‘Nova Acta’ of the Leopoldino-Carolinian Academy) as Damalis tiang, and tells us that it is one of the commonest Antelopes on the Sobat, Ghasal, and Kir rivers. He gives a coloured figure of its head. Whether v. Heuglin’s Damalis tiang-riel, described in the same memoir (based on some horns from the Bahr el Abiad), is referable to the Tiang is not quite certain, but Sclater, who has examined the horns upon which the species was founded, now in the Naturalien-Cabinet of Stuttgardt, believes them to be so.
The only other explorer of these distant regions who has sent home examples of the Tiang is, so far as we know, Petherick, from whom skulls of an immature male and an adult female of this Antelope were received by the British Museum in 1859. The latter are represented in the accompanying figure (fig. 8).
Besides Petherick, Sir Samuel Baker appears to have met with the Tiang during his journey along the Upper Nile (see ‘Ismailia,’ i. pp. 68–74); and the Antilope senegalensis of Emin Pasha (‘Reise-Briefen,’ p. 144), which he encountered near Magungo, on the Albert Nyanza, may probably be referable to this species.
January, 1895.
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DAMALISCUS JIMELA (Matsch.).
Damalis senegalensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 176 (Lamu); Noack, Zool. JB. ii. p. 208 (1887); Scl. P. Z. S. 1890, p. 354 (woodcuts of head and horns, excl. all synonyms, which mostly belong to D. korrigum and D. tiang); Kirk, ap. Scl. l. c. p. 357, footnote (distribution); Ward, Horn Meas. p. 64, fig. (head) (1892).
Damalis jimela, Matsch. SB. nat. Fr. Berl. 1892, p. 135.
Bubalis jimeru, Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 203 (1893).
Alcelaphus senegalensis, Lugard, E. Africa, i. p. 532, pl. p. 448 (head) (1893).
Senegal Antelope, Willoughby, East Afr. p. 283 (Tana River).