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and band above hoofs and false hoofs are white. The front 

 of the forelegs from the light hoof band to the shoulders, 

 the front of the hind legs from the hoof band to the hock, and 

 the tip of the tail are blackish-brown or dark seal-brown. 



No flesh measurements of this race are available. The 

 skull of an adult male measures ii^ inches in length. In 

 a' series of six adult males the longest horns measure 2i>^ 

 inches along the curve by 13 inches in greatest spread. 

 These horn measurements exceed those of thomasi from the 

 'Nzoia River by three or four inches and indicate a greater 

 horn length for the Nile race, a difference which is further 

 confirmed by the measurements given in Rowland Ward's 

 "Records of Big Game." 



White-Eared Kob 



Adenota kob leucotis 



Native Names: Djeng, kul; Dinka, teel. 



Antilope leucotis Lichtenstein and Peters, 1853, N. B. Ak., Berl., p. 164. 



Range. — The White Nile region in the vicinity of the 

 junction of the Sobat and Bahr-el-Ghazal aflluents eastward 

 along the Sobat to the Abyssinian border. 



The white-eared kob was first obtained by Werne, a 

 German traveller, on the Sobat River, and described in 

 1853 t)y the well-known German naturalists Lichtenstein 

 and Peters. This specimen was not one of the character- 

 istic black males, but was of the tawny type like the re- 

 cently described vaughani. Heuglin met with this species 

 in 1 861 in the Sobat and Bahr-el-Ghazal regions, and de- 

 scribed it under its native names of kul and ivuil. Sir Samuel 

 Baker also met with the white-eared kob in his explorations 

 of the Nile sources. 



This handsome antelope was found in herds along the 

 mouth of the Bahr el Zeraf. Their habits were substan- 

 tially those of the common kob. They were found on the im- 

 mense dry flats, sometimes among the scattered thorn-trees, 

 sometimes out on the stretches of short grass; although 



