50. LIVINGSTONE’S ANTELOPE.
NESOTRAGUS LIVINGSTONIANUS, Kirk.
Antilope moschata, Peters, Reise Mossamb., Säug. p. 189 (1852) (nec v. Düben) (Tette).
Nesotragus moschatus, Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 134 (1887); id. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 165 (1892).
Nesotragus livingstonianus, Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 657 (Shupanga); Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 31 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 100 (1873).
Nanotragus livingstonianus, Thos. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 237 (fig. skull) (Umkozi R., Zululand).
Vernacular Names:—Rumpsa at Tette; Injasorro in Mozambique (Peters); Inhlengana of Zulus (A. H. Neumann).
Size larger than N. moschatus, and in other respects a finer and more richly coloured animal. General colour deep rufous, verging on chestnut; flanks and limbs more fawn-coloured than in N. moschatus. Top of tail darker than back, approaching black; its underside white.
Skull with the posterior palate produced backwards about a quarter of an inch behind the level of the back of the last molar.
Dimensions of a fine male example:—Basal length 4·4 inches, greatest breadth 2·45, muzzle to orbit 2·35.
Horns thick and heavy, especially in southern specimens, strongly but closely ridged to within an inch of their tips. In Mr. Neumann’s fine Zululand specimen there are no less than 25 rings to a horn-length of 3·3 in., and in the same example the circumference of the horns is about 1·7 in.