2o8 ANTELOPES 



the Bahr-el-Ghazal province of an undescribed species of antelope 

 near akin to the white-eared kob, but distinguished by the coat being 

 foxy red at all ages instead of the coloured areas turning blackish 

 brown in the old bucks. The good fortune of making this antelope 

 known to the world fell to Captain P. E. Vaughan, of the Egyptian 

 army, who in that year sent home the head-skin and horns of an 

 adult buck, which are now mounted and exhibited in the British 

 Museum. The animal was shot near Wau, long. 28° 10' E., lat. 

 7° 30' N., in the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and was the only buck in the herd, 

 which included seven or eight does. Captain Vaughan has, however, 

 also killed five or six other specimens of this antelope from the south- 

 western district of the Bahr-el-Ghazal province. The specimen was 

 described by the present writer as a new species in the Field for 

 October 1906 (vol. cviii. p. 693). 



In the general style of colouring this antelope, so far as the head 

 and neck are concerned, comes very close to the white-eared kob ; 

 both sides of the ears, a large patch extending thence to surround each 

 eye, the muzzle, chin, upper part of throat, and also the lower portion 

 of the chest being white. Elsewhere the colour of the head and neck 

 is bright foxy red, with a faint tendency to brown along the middle 

 line of the nose. Unlike leucotis^ the base of the back of the ears is 

 coloured, and the white area between the ear and the eye is rather 

 smaller than in the latter. The horns also seem to be somewhat 

 shorter and less curved than in the dark species. As regards the 

 rest of the colouring, it is stated by Captain Vaughan that there is a 

 black line down the front of both legs, extending all the way in the 

 front pair, but in the hind ones not reaching above the hocks. With 

 the exception of the white under-parts, the rest of the coat is of the 

 same foxy red as the head and neck. It is noticeable, however, that 

 many of the old bucks show a certain number of blackish hairs on the 

 neck and back, evidently foreshadowing the dark coat of the adult 

 males of leucotis. Young bucks (and apparently does at all ages) are 

 uniformly foxy all over. 



According to its discoverer, the herds of this kob may include from 

 one buck and seven or eight does to as many as seventy or eighty 

 head, among which will be perhaps a dozen bucks of all ages. Captain 

 Vaughan writes : — 



" It appears to be the common kob of the Bahr-el-Ghazal province, 

 by which I do not refer to the Bahr-el-Ghazal river, but to the district 

 south of the Meshra-el-Rek and north of the Congo Free State, 

 bounded on the east by the Nile and on the west by the French 



