Published by R. H. Porter]
49. THE ZANZIBAR ANTELOPE.
NESOTRAGUS MOSCHATUS, von Düb.
[PLATE XXVIII.]
Nesotragus moschatus, Von Düben, Öfv. K. Vet.-Ak. Förh. iii. 1846, p. 221 (1847) (French Is., off Zanzibar); Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1845, p. 322 (1847); id. Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 314; Reprint, p. 134 (1848); Gray, Knowsl. Men. p. 8 (1850); id. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 119; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (2) viii. p. 137 (1851); id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 75 (1852); Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. pp. 192, 209 (1853); Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 101; Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 164 (1869); Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 30 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 99 (1873); Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 49; Ward, Horn Meas. p. 80 (1892); Matsch. Thierw. Ost-Afr. Saügeth. p. 119.
Antilope moschata, Wagn. Schr. Säug., Suppl. v. p. 415 (1855).
Nanotragus moschatus, Brooke, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 642; Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 339 (1891); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 217 (1893); True, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 478 (1892) (Kilimanjaro); Jackson, Badm. Big Game Shooting, i. pp. 285, 310 (1894).
Cephalophorus zanzibaricus, Layard, Cat. Mamm. S. Afr. Mus. p. 72 (1861).
Nesotragus kirchenpaueri, Pagenst. JB. Mus. Hamb. ii. p. 36 (1885) (Kilimanjaro).
Vernacular Names:—“Grave-Island Gazelle” of E.-African Sportsmen (Jackson); Suni of Kichagas of Kilimanjaro (Abbott); Paa of Swahilis (Fischer, teste Matschie).
Size small; height about 13 inches at withers. General colour dull, finely grizzled fawn-grey, with a tinge of rufous, which is especially strong on the face and sides of the neck. Top of nose with a brown patch. Throat pale rufous. Chin, belly, and inner sides of limbs white. Upper part of outer sides of limbs like flanks, lower part, from elbows and hocks downwards, pale rufous; pasterns brown. Tail grizzled greyish above like the back, whitish below.
Skull with the bony palate ending, in the middle line, just in front of the level of the back of the last molar.