POOKOO ANTELOPE 129 
Drawn from a specimen in the british Museum. 
POOKOO ANTELOPE (Cobus vardoni). 
The Pookoo is an extremely local antelope, which hitherto has 
been seldom procured by European hunters. Mr. Selous probably 
knows more about its habits than any living sportsman, and he only 
encountered this antelope in a narrow belt of country extending about 
sixty miles westward along the south bank of the Chobe from the 
junction of that river with the Zambesi. The horns differ considerably, 
as may be seen by the illustration, from the other waterbucks. In size 
the Pookoo stands about 3 feet 3 inches, or 3 feet 4 inches, at the 
shoulder—about the height of a pallah ram. The coat is reddish 
yellow, somewhat thick like the other waterbucks, and, about the back 
and loins, long and curly. Mr. Selous states that he never saw more 
than ten or a dozen in a herd. The females are hornless. 
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