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is wholly of a bright foxy red, with the tips of the horns turned out- 

 wards. It stands about 52 inches at the shoulder, and is estimated to 

 weigh about 450 lb. From the Maanja river district in Uganda, about 

 thirty miles from Kampala in the direction of the Albert Nyanza, has 

 been described a hartebeest differing from normal examples of jacksoni 



by its more tawny colour 

 and the presence of a dis- 

 tinct black dorsal stripe and 

 black markings on the limbs ; 

 these markings being con- 

 fined to the knees and hocks 

 and the parts below them. 

 This Maanja hartebeest is 

 at present known only by 

 a single specimen, of which 

 the head is exhibited in 

 the British Museum, Natural 

 History. If it prove to be 

 a distinct race, it should be 

 known as B. I. insignis. 



Writing of the race 

 named after himself, Mr. 

 F. J. Jackson states that of 

 all the hartebeests found in 

 East Central i\frica this is cer- 

 tainly the largest and finest, 

 while it has also the ugliest 

 and longest head of all. It 

 is widely distributed, being 

 found from that part of 

 Masailand lying between 

 Lakes Elmeteita and Nakuru 

 for some forty miles to the 

 north, and then eastward- to 

 the Nile valley. It has also been seen on the Laikipia plateau, -east 

 of the Lorogi Mountains. 



" The headquarters of these hartebeests are," he continues, " un- 

 doubtedly the Mau plateau and Turkwel. On the rolling grassy downs 

 of the former they are very common from about 8000 to 5000 feet. 

 Wherever found, they may be seen in herds of four or five up to forty 

 or fifty and sometimes more, also single bulls quite by themselves. If 



Fig. 32.— Head of White Nile Lelwel Hartebeest, 

 from Mr. Niedeck's l\Iit der Biichse in fiinf Weltteileii. 



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