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ation, but may be distinguished by its less widely spread 

 horns, which lack the angular bracket shape of that species. 

 In horn shape it approaches closely the Neumann harte- 

 beest of Lake Rudolf, from which if differs by lighter color- 

 ation and narrower horns. In the large series of specimens 

 of kongoni from the Loita Plains, in the National Mu- 

 seum, are one or two which closely approximate nakurce in 

 horn shape, and these are connected by intermediate spec- 

 imens with the normal bracket-shaped horns of the typical 

 race. 



No flesh measurements are available for comparison. 

 Three specimens shot near Lake Nakuru by Kermit Roose- 

 velt represent the race in the National Museum. One of 

 these has been selected as the type of the race. Two other 

 specimens from Lake Baringo have been examined in the 

 British Museum. The larger of the two males shot by 

 Kermit Roosevelt has a skull length of i8>4^ inches and 

 horns of the same length, but with only 8 inches spread at 

 the tips. The narrowness at the tips is due to the inward 

 curvature, the horns being widest about the middle of their 

 length. Herds of hartebeest have been seen on several 

 occasions on the Naivasha Plains, flanking the Aberdare 

 Range on the west, which doubtless belong to this race, as 

 they have from this point northward a continuous range to 

 Lake Baringo. 



Neumann Hartebeest 

 Buhalis cokei neumanni 



Buhalis neumanni Rothschild, 1897, Ann. i^ Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. XX, p. 376. 



Range. — From the northeast shore of Lake Rudolf and 

 the east bank of the Omo River eastward to Lake Stefanie 

 and its tributary streams. 



A. H. Neumann, while elephant hunting at the extreme 

 north end of Lake Rudolf near the village of Bumi, shot 

 the type specimen of the hartebeest which Rothschild 

 named for him in 1897. Neumann saw them only at this 

 particular locality. A few years later Donaldson Smith 

 met with this hartebeest, which he refers to as Coke's, north 

 of Lake Stefanie and again on the east bank of the Omo 



