KONZI OR LICHTENSTEIN'S HARTEBEEST 1 1 r 



nearest point, so far as I know, where a congener occurs is at the 

 western base of the Lorogi Mountains, where Jackson's hartebeest has 

 the extreme limit of its range. Coke's is still farther away." 



THE KONZI OR LICHTENSTEIN'S HARTEBEEST 



{Bubalis lichtensteini) 



Inkiilanondo, Mashona ; Konzi, Masubia, Chilala, and Chibisa ; 

 Koko-Tombivi, Barotsi ; Godonko, Zambesi 



(Plate iv, fig. 9) 



With the konzi, or Lichtenstein's hartebeest, we come to a species 

 easily recognised by the form of the horns. These are mounted on a 

 short and wide pedicle, and are much flattened at the base, and strongly 

 curved inwards below the terminal backward inclination ; their rings, 

 which extend nearly to the tips, are also but slightly elevated on the 

 basal portion. The general colour is yellowish tawny, tending to a more 

 decided rufous hue on the back, with the chin, the fronts of the lower 

 portion of the legs, and the tail-tuft black. The shoulder-height is 

 from about 50 to 52 inches, and the weight has been given as about 

 300 lb. East Africa, north of the Sabi river, throughout Nyasaland 

 and Mozambique to Usagara, forms the range of this species. 



Mr. Selous observes that " this fine antelope, whose range is now 

 known to extend over large areas of country to the north of the 

 Zambesi in Central and East Central Africa, as well as over a con- 

 siderable part of South -East Africa to the south of that river, was 

 first discovered by the German naturalist. Dr. Peters, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sena on the lower Zambesi, and by him named after his 

 compatriot, the traveller Dr. Lichtenstein. South of the point where 

 Dr. Peters first met with it, this hartebeest is found throughout the 

 greater part of the low-lying coast-country between the Zambesi and 

 the Sabi, and although its range has not been accurately determined 

 in this direction, it probably extends into certain districts of the 

 country to the south of the lower course of the latter river. The 

 species is fairly common on both sides of the central and upper course 

 of the Sabi river, as far north as a point some 50 miles south of 

 Mount Wedza, and from there eastwards may be met with to within a 

 few miles of Massikessi. Westwards from the central Sabi a few 

 stragglers range as far as and even beyond the Lunti river, while in 



