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River, but states that on crossing the river no more were 

 seen, their place being taken by the lelwel. The Neumann 

 hartebeest is widely separated geographically from the 

 British East African races of the Coke, which it closely 

 resembles. Geographically it is much more intimately con- 

 nected with the tora hartebeest, to which its horns have 

 considerable resemblance. 



The Neumann hartebeest is known only by the speci- 

 mens collected by Neumann on the shores of Lake Rudolf. 

 The type is in Rothschild's Museum at Tring, and another, 

 a female specimen, is in the British Museum. These spec- 

 imens have been examined. They differ from the Nakuru 

 hartebeest by their more wide-spread horns and darker 

 dorsal coloration, but their differences are remarkably 

 slight considering the widely isolated character of their 

 habitat. The horn measurements of the two known speci- 

 mens are: male, length, i6>^ inches; spread at tips, 8J^ 

 inches; female, length, 13^^ inches; spread at tips, 9^ 

 inches. 



Lelwel Hartebeest 



Bubalis lelwel 



The lelwel represents the extreme type of hartebeest 

 development in length of head and narrowness of horn 

 spread. The horn pedicle in this species attains its greatest 

 development and projects far behind the condyles of the 

 skull. In body size the lelwel exceeds the other species. 

 The species represent the maximum in grotesqueness and 

 size, compared with the others of the genus. The color- 

 ation is quite uniform and reddish in tint, although there 

 is in some of the races an approach to the black legs and 

 face blaze and dorsal stripe of the Caama hartebeest of 

 South Africa. This latter species, although widely iso- 

 lated geographically, is a closely related species in horn and 

 skull shape. The lelwel is primarily a Nilotic species 

 which has spread eastward in British East Africa, where it 

 is now contending in the Rift Valley with the Coke harte- 

 beest for territory. 



