125. THE BROAD-HORNED ANTELOPE.
TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS (Ogilby).
[PLATE XCI.]
Antilope, sp., Afz. N. Acta Upsal. vii. p. 269, pl. viii. fig. 3; H. Sm. Griff. An. K. v. p. 361 (?).
Antilope eurycerus, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 120; Waterh. Cat. Mus. Zool. Soc. (2) p. 42 (1838); Temm. Esq. Zool. Guin. p. 190 (1853); Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. (4) iv. p. 468 (1887).
Antilope (Addax) euryceros, Laurill. Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 620 (1861).
Tragelaphus eurycerus, Less. N. Tabl. R. A., Mamm. p. 181 (1842); Wagn. Schr. Säug., Suppl. v. p. 441 (1855); Gray, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 144; id. Knowsl. Menag. p. 27, pl. xxiii. fig. 1 (horns) (1850); id. Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 136 (1852); id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 276; Gerr. Cat. Bones B. M. p. 246 (1862); Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt. 1, p. 174 (1869); Brooke, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 485, pl. xxxix.; Scl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 35; Thomas, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 387; Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 347 (1891); Ward, Horn Meas. p. 158 (1892); id. Rec. Big Game, p. 202 (1896); Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, xi.) p. 172 (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 254 (1893); id. Royal Nat. Hist. ii. p. 275 (1894); Pousarg. Ann. Sci. Nat. iv. p. 81 (1897); Trouess. Cat. Mamm. p. 957 (1898); Bryden, in Ward’s Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 454, pl. xiii. fig. 3 (1899).
Euryceros euryceros, Gray, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 48 (1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 119 (1873); Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 141 (1887); id. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1888, pp. 23–25; Büttik. Reisebilder, ii. p. 380, cum fig. (1890).
Tragelaphus albo-virgatus, Du Chaill. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. pp. 299–300 (1861); id. Expl. & Adv. Equat. Afr. p. 306, pl. (1861).
Tragelaphus albovittatus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 276.
Vernacular Names:—Trommé of the Mandingos (Temminck); Elk of Liberians and Guin of the Veys in Liberia (Büttikofer); Bongo of Gaboon (Du Chaillu).
Height at the withers of the adult male about 43 inches. General colour of the head and body bright chestnut, with a white spinal stripe extending from the withers to the root of the tail, and about 14 or 15 transverse white stripes on the shoulders, flanks, and hind-quarters, passing from the spinal stripe above on to the belly beneath. Head with a patch of deeper colour upon the forehead, and extending about two inches below the eyes. An angular V-shaped white mark extending inwards from the eye on to the nose, interrupted in the middle line by a narrow brown band; chin and lips white; two or three cheek-spots large and sometimes fused together; inter-ramal area and upper end of throat covered with hairs of a blackish hue; lower end of the throat with a very distinct transverse white band; chest and belly covered with short hair of a purplish-brown colour; area between the hind legs and beneath the tail up to the anus white. Fore legs blackish from the fetlocks to the knees, chestnut from the knees to the shoulders externally; white at the bases close to the chest, as also above the knees and between knees and fetlocks internally; a large white spot on the front of the pasterns. Hind legs chestnut down to the fetlocks on the outer side; front of the hocks and cannon-bones broadly white; fetlocks blackish or brownish, both without and within; a white patch on the pasterns as on the fore legs.