Mr. Mosse, who brought the type specimen home himself, supplied Sir Victor with the information that he had procured it in March 1867, when it was only two or three months old, and that it had been caught on the banks of the Gambia about 70 or 80 miles from Bathurst, midway between that town and Macarthey’s Island. Mr. Mosse had never met with a second individual.
In 1873 and 1876 the Zoological Society received female specimens of what were believed to be the same Antelope, but they did not live long in the Gardens.
December, 1895.
44. THE ABYSSINIAN ORIBI.
OUREBIA MONTANA (Cretzschm.).
Antilope brevicaudata, Rüpp. MS. (N. Wirb. p. 25, 1835).
Antilope montana, Cretzschm. Atl. Rüpp. Reise, Säug. p. 11, pl. iii. (Fazogloa Mts., Blue Nile) (1826); J. B. Fisch. Syn. Mamm. p. 469 (1829); Rüpp. N. Wirb. Abyss., Mamm. p. 25 (1835); id. P. Z. S. 1836, p. 3 (occurrence of canines); Less. Compl. Buff. x. p. 290 (1836); Oken, Allg. Nat. vii. p. 1362 (1838); Laurill. Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 623 (1839); Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 177 (1842); Wagn. Schr. Säug., Suppl. iv. p. 431 (1844), v. p. 412 (1855); Schinz, Syn. Mamm. ii. p. 421 (1845); Gieb. Säug. p. 316 (1854); Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 34.
Redunca montana, A. Sm. S. Afr. Quart. Journ. ii. p. 211 (1834).
Tragelaphus montanus, Rüpp. Verz. Senck. Mus. p. 37 (1842).
Calotragus montanus, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 193 (1846); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 144; Reprint, p. 68 (1848); Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 191 (1853); Heugl. Ant. u. Büff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leop. xxx. pt. 2) p. 8 (1863); id. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 104 (1877).
Scopophorus montanus, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 232 (1846); id. op. cit. (2) viii. p. 137 (1851); id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 74 (1852); Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 101 (Karagweh); Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 165 (1869); Blanf. Zool. Abyss. p. 266 (1870) (Dolo, Abyssinia); Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 19 (1872); Gigl. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 18 (1888) (Shoa); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 160 (1892).