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diverging in a regular (J-sliaped curve, with little backward 

 inclination of tips. Colour uniform pale rufous or yellowisli 

 fawn, with no dark markings on face or limbs, but a pair of 

 indistinct greyish patches on muzzle ; no whitish on lower 

 part of rump ; only terminal tuft of tail black. Approximate 

 iDasal length of skull 13 inches ; maximum breadth 4^ inches. 

 Good horns may measure from 13J to 15 inches along front 

 curve, the maximum recorded length being lo^ inches. 



Information is lacking with regard to the distribution of 

 this apparently rare species in North Africa. It has 1)een 

 stated by Tristram that this hartebeest, which has long since 

 been extinct in Egypt, exists in Syria and Arabia, and in 

 support of this statement the authors of the Book of Antelopes 

 refer to a pair of horns obtained by Tristram from the Arabs 

 of Syria " apparently referable to a female of this species." 

 The present writer has, however, been unable to find any 

 other testimony that this, or any other, hartebeest inhabits 

 south-western Asia. 



64], a. Skin, mounted. Xorth Africa. 



Presented hjj the Zoologiecd ISocietj/, 1855. 



98. 6. 16. 1. Head, mounted. North Africa. 



Presented hj the Duke of Bedford, K.G., 1898. 



59. 2. 10. 1. Skin and skeleton, female. North Africa. 

 Presented hj the Zoologiecd Societi/, 1857. 



641, e. Horns. North Africa. JVo iListory. 



46. 10. 30. 153. Skin young, mounted. Tunis. 



Purchased, 1846. 



II. BU BALIS MAJOR 



Boselaphus major, Blyth, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1869, p. 52. 



Bubalis major, Ward, Becords of Big Game,* p. 62, 1892, ed. 6, p. 121, 

 1910 ; Matscliie, Mitth. deutsch. Schutzgehiet, vol. vi, pt. 3, p. 17, 

 1893 ; Lydekker, Ho7'ns and Hoofs, p. 196, 1893, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 134, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 96, 

 1908; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 11, 1894; 

 Arnold, Gi'eat and Small Game of Africa, p. 135, 1899 ; 

 de Winton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 358, 1899; 

 Jentink, Notes Leyden Mas. vol. xxiii, p. 18, 1901 ; Alexander, 

 From Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 390, 1907. 



* This name like others in the sequel given as dating from Ward's 

 book were first used in the Field by the present writer in articles 

 subsequently republished in Horns and Hoofs. 



