BUBALIK.*: 



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Bubalis tora, Ward, Bccords of Big Game, p. 59, 1892, ed. 6, p. 123, 

 1910 ; LydrU-er, Horns and Hoofs, p. 198, 1893, Grrat and Small 

 Game of Afriea, p. 133, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 100, 

 1908 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelo2)es, vol. i, p. 15, 1894 ; 

 Bothschild, Powell-Cotton's Sjyoi'ting Trip through Abyssinia, 

 p. 461, 1902. 



Tora. 



Typical locality Abyssinia, to which country, together 

 with the lower part of the Blue Xile basin, this species 

 appears to be restricted. 



Pig. 1. — Skull axd Horns of Tora Hartebeest {Buhalis tora). 



Size, typically, much the same as in the preceding species ; 

 the shoulder-height ranging, it is stated, from 4 to 4J feet. 

 Horns, which surmount a pedicle of medium height, in the 

 form of a wide inverted bracket, and very slender ; general 

 -colour ranging from pale fulvous, with or without a 

 distinct dirty white rump-patch to deep rufous ; tail-tuft 

 black. 



