BUFFON'S KOB 211 



The eastern or Uganda race {C. c. tJioniasi), which was described 

 by Mr. O. Neumann in the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1896, 

 p. 193, as Adenota thoinasi, is considerably larger than the typical 

 Guinea kob, standing as much as 35^ inches at the shoulder. It is 



Fig. 43. — Head of tlie White-eared Kob. 



further distinguished by having a large white patch round each eye, 

 and the absence (at least in the specimen exhibited in the British 

 Museum) of the white fetlock-ring ; while the black on the fore-limbs 

 does not reach the shoulder, and that on the hind pair stops some 

 distance short of the hocks. The horns are stated to be yellower in 



