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120 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Iforns of Bubal Hartebeest. From Mr. Abe Bailey’s specimen. 
The BUBAL HARTEBEEST (Bubalis boselaphus). 
This species commences the family of hollow-horned ruminants. 
Bovide, in which the horns are in the form of unbranched hollow 
sheaths supported on bony cores and carried permanently. The harte- 
beests are large antelopes with naked muzzles, abnormally long faces, 
doubly-curved horns, small apertures to the face-glands, large valvular 
nostrils (of which the lower lids are covered with short hairs), long, 
tufted tails, and large lateral hoofs. Both sexes are horned. The 
typical hartebeests have a whorl of hair on the forehead, and the hair 
on the middle line of the face directed downwards below this till a 
short distance above the nose, when there is another whorl ; face- 
glands large. The present species is the smallest of the group, 
standing only 43 or 44 inches at the shoulder. It has a short pedicle 
supporting the horns, which are in the form of the letter U, and the 
colour is uniform tawny, with the tail-tuft black. 
Distribution.—North-west Africa (interior of Morocco, Algeria, 
and Tunisia). 
Length on Circum- 
fonE ae: | Tip to Tip. Locality. Owner. 
154 83 77 North Africa. ; : . British Museum. 
13? oF ot Tunisia . : 5 : . Abe Bailey. 
133 83 72 North Africa . : : . British Museum. 
