118 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Drawn from a specimen shot at Somaliland. 
WATERBUCK (Cobus ellipsiprymnus). 
wahilt name—* Kuru.” 
The noble-looking Waterbuck Bull, with its extremely handsome 
head and horns, is one of the prizes of the South African hunter. 
Never inordinately plentiful, this antelope has of late years been greatly 
reduced in its range. Perhaps the best region in which nowadays to 
seek the Kring-Gaat, as the Boers term it, is in the unhealthy country 
between the Sabi and Zambesi rivers, or upon the affluents of the 
Upper Zambesi, or on the Chobe, the Okavango, and other systems 
above Lake Ngami. Except for the fine horns of the male, the Water- 
buck is of little use to European sportsmen, the females being hornless, 
