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inches. This is the longest pair of horns of any lelwel in 

 the National Museum and falls but one inch short of Ward's 

 record from the Nile. The horns of the older or fully 

 adult males are all shorter, owing to the wearing down of 

 the points. This race will no doubt be found to carry the 

 longest horns of any lelwel in conformity with its larger 

 body size. The longest-skulled specimen from Gondokoro 

 measures 2\}4> inches, exceeding by more than an inch 

 that of any other race in the large series in the National 

 Museum. 



Uganda Lelwel Hartebeest 

 Buhalis lelwel insignis 



Native Names: Baganda, enangazi ; Unyoro, enas. 



Buhalis jacksoni insignis Thomas, 1904, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 455. 



Range. — From the hill country of Karagwe in German 

 East Africa northward over the plateau region of Uganda 

 as far as the highlands east of Nimule. 



We also owe to Jackson's efforts the discovery of this 

 hartebeest. It was named by Thomas in 1904 from a 

 specimen secured near the Maanja River, in central Uganda. 

 It is one of the rarest and least known of hartebeests owing 

 to the extremely local character of its distribution. It has 

 been reported from Buddu by Gedge, from Karagwe by 

 Scott-Eliot and from the Mount Agora region of northern 

 Uganda by Powell-Cotton, but only the latter of these 

 records is represented by museum specimens. 



The Uganda lelwel is characterized by having more 

 extensive black markings than any other race. Besides 

 having the black leg-bands it has a black dorsal stripe on 

 the nape and back and also a black face blaze or black cheek 

 patches. The dorsal stripe and the black face markings 

 are sometimes absent or only faintly indicated. In the 

 general body color and size it is identical with the Jackson 

 hartebeest. 



Four specimens were collected by the Roosevelt expe- 

 dition in the Maanja River drainage near the village of 

 Kisingo. The flesh measurements of one of these speci- 

 mens, a male, were: head and body, 73 inches; tail, 21 

 inches; hind foot, 2i>:4 inches; ear, J}<1 inches. The skull 



