398 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Key to the Races of lekvel 



Black stripe on front of legs 



Black dorsal stripe or face markings wanting lelwel 



A black dorsal stripe on nape and withers; head with a black blaze 

 or black cheek patches insignis 



Black markings on legs or body wanting 

 Horns narrow, with long pedicle 



Dorsal color darker, cinnamon-rufous; head shorter 



jacks oni 



Dorsal color lighter, ochraceous-tawny, head longer 



roosevelti 



Horns wider-spread, with shorter pedicle kenice 



Heuglin Lelwel Hartebeest 



Bubalis lelwel lelwel 



Native Names: Djeng, lelwel; Monbuttu, nakibbee; Niam-niam, songaroh. 

 Acronotus lelwel Heuglin, 1877, Reise, N. Ost. Afr., H, p. 124, fig. horns. 



Range. — West side of the Nile from the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 drainage area south to the Albert Nyanza. 



Von Heuglin met with this hartebeest during his explo- 

 rations of the upper Nile in 1863-4. He described it in 

 1877, giving it the name by which it is known to the Djeng 

 tribe of the Bahr-el-Ghazal district. He published with 

 his description a figure of the horns, which he compared to 

 the closely allied Caama of South Africa. A few years 

 later Schweinfurth met with the same species on the head- 

 waters of the Bahr-el-Ghazal drainage and records its occur- 

 rence, together with a list of its native names. The lelwel 

 has remained in obscurity for many years, but recently it 

 has been re-established by Lydekker. 



The Heuglin lelwel is distinguishable from the Roose- 

 velt lelwel of the east side of the Nile by the presence of 

 black stripes on the front of the legs and by its somewhat 

 smaller size and slightly lighter color. A series of five 

 specimens shot by Colonel Roosevelt in the Lado Enclave 

 near Rhino Camp are in the National Museum. The flesh 



