The head of the “Madoqua” figured by Schweinfurth in ’Im Herzen von Afrika’ (vol. i. p. 266) was probably taken from an example of this Antelope. It was met with along with a species of Duiker in Bongo on the upper waters of the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and observed in pairs among the bushes. Its native name there is “Heggolah.”
In the British Museum there are the skull of an adult male of this species and three skins of females from Dembelas, Abyssinia.
December, 1895.
45. HAGGARD’S ORIBI.
OUREBIA HAGGARDI (Thos.).
Nanotragus hastatus, Jackson, Badm. Big Game Shooting, i. p. 285 (1894) (Tana R. & Lamu) (nec Peters).
Neotragus haggardi, Thos. Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xv. p. 187 (1895) (Lamu).
Vernacular Name:—Taya of Swahilis (Haggard and Jackson).
Size as in O. scoparia and O. hastata. Auricular gland well developed.
Other external characters not yet positively known.
Skull with a rather shorter muzzle than in the common species. Horns very much thicker and heavier than in any of the previous species; the ridges strongly developed and sharply angular. Owing partly to the development of the ridges the front edge of their lower half is convex forwards, while the upper half is as usual concave forwards; viewed from the side the horns therefore appear to have a slight tendency towards the serpentine double curvature characteristic of the Gazelles, although far less developed.