16 HELEOTKAGID.E. 



3. Kobus leucotis. (The Nsunnu.) B.M. 



" Adult male the size of A. hd ; blackish sooty ; underside, ears, 

 orbits, and trout of orbits white to the forehead ; nasal region 

 •whitish fulvous ; forehead, cheeks, and tail black ; horns olive- 

 brown, blackish at tips. Younger male bay ; back brownish ; 

 underside, ears, apex of the nose, orbit, and temples white. Female 

 reddish fulvous ; limbs partly blackish." — IJeuglhi. 



Autilope leucotis, Licht. et Peters, Monatsh. Akad. Berl. 18-53, p. 164 ; 



Ahhild. 1855, p. 96, t. 3. 

 Adenota leucotis, Heuglin, Ant. Leopold. Acad. 1. 1. f. 4 (head). 

 Kobus leucotis, Gerrard, Osteol. Specim. p. 239; Sc/atei; P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 103. 



Hab. East Africa: Uganda, "never go far from water" (SjifJi'c). 



Three heads and horns in the British Museum : in two the head 

 is pale brown (one of these has the upper part of the nose varied 

 >vith black) ; the third has the nose, forehead, and cheeks blackish. 

 All have the end of the nose, side of the forehead, the orbits above 

 and below, and the lower side of the head whitish. The horns 

 ditfer greatly in thickness ; all corrugated nearly to the tip, and 

 longitudinally grooved between the corrugations. Capt. Speke's 

 specimen has much the thickest. 



B. Horns elmtyate, bent hack, strongly arched; tips incurved. 



4. Kobus Maria. (The Abok.) B.M. 



Head of male blackish brown ; lips, chin, gullet, orbits, and tem- 

 ple enclosing the base of the ears, and the ears, whitish ; the sides 

 of the nose brownish ; the hair of the cheek, side of the lower jaw, 

 gullet, and upper part (all that remains) of the neck elongate, rigid ; 

 the horus elongate, rather slender, widely lyrate, with very strong 

 transverse ridges and incurved tips. 



Head oi female brown, wdth the chin and gullet, base of the ears, 

 and two small spots (one over the front and the other behind the 

 lower edge of the eye) whitish ; the hair of the head black, with 

 brown tips ; of the lower part of the cheek, lower jaw, and neck 

 very long. Hornless. 



Kobus 'M&Y\A,Graij,Ann.S)Mag. N. ^.1859, iv. p. 297 (figure of 

 head) ; Wiegmanns Archiv, 1860, p. 28-j (figure of head). 



Adenota megaeeros, Heuglin, Antilopcn, p. 14, t. 2. f. 7, 8 (head and 

 horns). 



a. Kobus, sp. ? — " Uganda. Imperfect head of female, probably 

 of a species of Kobus. Native name ' Ndjezza.' 



"The 'Ndjezza' is found among the grasses near water in 

 Uganda. I never obtained the male of this Antelope. — /. //. S." 

 (Sclater, P. Z.S. 1864, p. 103). 



b. Mehedehet Antelope, Baker, Albert N'yanza, ii. p. 15 (figure 

 of head). — Hah. Obbo, (Central Africa. Feeds upon the rich low 

 grass of a sandbank in the very centre of the river. 



