WATER-BUCK 



CO BUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS AND CO BUS 

 DEFASSA SING- SING 



Swahili : Kuru. Masai : Ol-kipulege 



THERE are two well-known species of 

 this handsome antelope in this part 

 of the world — the sing-sing and the 

 ellipsiprymnus ; but after describing the 

 difference between them, so that they may be 

 distinguished at once, I may say the habits of one 

 apply exactly to the habits of the other as far as 

 I can make out, so they will be taken as one for 

 that reason. 



His rufous colour, with his long shaggy hair and 

 the splendid backward, upward, and then forward 

 sweeping horns, all combine to make this fine, 

 upstanding animal look a gentleman, " from the 

 word go." He is not unlike a Scotch red-deer, 

 bar his horns. 



The difference in the species lies in the presence 

 of an elliptical white crescent on the buttocks, 

 which extends downwards to the thighs, in the 

 case of the ellipsiprymnus, whilst the sing-sing 

 has a large white patch on the buttocks. Other- 



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