510 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Uganda Kob 

 Adenota kob thomasi 



Native Name: Uganda, nsunnu. 



Adenota thomasi Neumann, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 192. 



Range. — Upper Nile watershed from the headwaters of 

 the 'Nzoia River on the flanks of the Uasin Gishu Plateau 

 westward through Uganda to the Albert Nyanza, north- 

 ward along the Elgon highlands west of Lake Rudolf to the 

 Soudan boundary at least. 



The Uganda kob has long been known to naturalists, but 

 it has only comparatively recently been distinguished from 

 the older species from Senegal and the Zambesi River. 

 Speke and Grant brought heads from Uganda in 1863. 

 These were the earliest specimens to reach Europe, and were 

 confounded with the white-eared race by Sclater. Later, in 

 1891, F. J. Jackson sent specimens to the British Museum 

 from Mount Elgon which were referred first to the Zambesi 

 species, vardo7ii, and later to the typical race, kob, of Senegal. 

 Finally, Herr Oscar Neumann distinguished the race in 1896 

 and described it under the present name, Adenota thomasiy 

 naming it for Oldfield Thomas of the British Museum. 



We found this species in one form or another, common 

 from the Uasin Gishu across to the White Nile, and down 

 the White Nile to the sud; below the sud its place was 

 taken by the white-eared kob. They are rather chunky 

 animals, big bucks reaching a weight of nearly two hundred 

 and fifty pounds. 



Although close kin to the waterbuck the golden-coated 

 kob reminds the observer more of the impalla. Along the 

 Uasin Gishu we found the kob in herds of twenty or thirty 

 does and young animals, with a single master buck to each 

 herd. Their range was much more limited than that of the 

 waterbuck in the same region, for they did not go so far 

 away from the river, out on the rolling and hilly plains, nor 



