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Genera] colour rich glossy sienna-brown, fading- to yellow on flanks, and white 

 on under parts, with a yellowish Maze on each side of rump. Beneath the eyes and 

 ears skin whitish in coloration. The forehead is prominent and dark brown, often 

 tinged with black in the mesial line between and below the bases of the horns. 

 From the inner angle of each orbit there extends horizontally inwards a well-defined 

 narrow pale yellow mark, which almost meets across the dark chestnut-brown nose. 

 It has a ])riiminent black hairless tear-jrland on the face below the orbital cavity. 



It has black lij)S; the lower one is furnished with lony- black hairs. The frontal 

 sinuses are so extensive that yon can cut off the horns without opening the brain- 

 cavity: the cranial cavities in communication with the air-passages are often infested 

 with dipterous larvae. Between the hoofs of the forefeet and above them is an 

 opening that leads into a cul de sac, which is filled with stiff lilack haii'. 



1 have seen horns up to 20| inches in length. 



The calf of this species is at first dun-brown, with a black line down the centre 

 of the back, and has not a trace of the yellowish blaze on the rnmp; it is very swift 

 of foot when still very young, as I was witness to this fact on September 22nd, 189n. 

 Ou August 1 1th 1 shot an adult cow that carried a nearly full-grown IVetus. Wounded 

 animals I have heard emit a hoarse grunting bellow, but 1 have never been charged 

 by a wounded animal, nor have I heard of an animal of this species attempting to 

 retaliate. 



20. Blue Wildebeest. Connochoetes taurinus jacksoni Sd. 



These are fonnd in small numbers on some of the slopes which border the 

 Melanji Range. The nude of a pair was shot by Mr. H. C. McDonald, of Chiromo. 

 They were tlie only animals of this species he saw, and this one was only obtained 

 after infinite trouble. The entire skin and skull he presented to the Brirish Mnseum. 

 No other sportsman has shot this auteloj)e in Nyassaland. 



