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CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



width 5i inches. Good horns measure from 19 to 21 inches 

 along front curve, with a girth of from 9 to lOJ, and a tip- 

 to-tip interval of fi'om 13 to 18| iuches. 



Fig. 2.— Head of Coke's Hartebeest {Buhalis coJici). 



The distributional area extends from Usagara northwards 

 to Kilimanjaro, Masailand, and the neighbourhood of Lake 

 Eudolf. 



The races are distinsfuishable as follows : — 



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A. Horns distinctly bracket- shaped, with middle 



segment horizontal. 



a. General colour bright fawn, paler on buttocks B. c. coTcei. 



b. General colour darker and less rufous, with 



buttocks but little lighter than back B. c. rotlischildi. 



c. General colour lighter and more huffish than 



in rt, and frontal rufous replaced by tawny B. c. hongoiii. 



B. Horns less distinctly bracket-shaped, and ap- 



proxunating to those of the lehvel group B.C. nalxurce. 



