HARTEBEEST 



BUBALIS JACKSONI. BUB A LIS NEUMANNI. 



BUBALIS COKEI 



Swahili : Kongoni. Masai : Olkondi 



THE three kinds of hartebeest that occur 

 in this country had almost better be 

 bracketed together for the sake of de- 

 scribing their habits, which will, I think, 

 be found to be identical in every case. 



The Jackson's, Neumanns, and Coke's harte- 

 beests differ rather uniformly, if I may use the 

 word, when taken in the above order. 



The ground colour in the three species is rich 

 fulvous fawn, darkest in the Jackson's, lightest in 

 the Coke's. The Jackson's face goes to the 

 darkest shade of the three ; and the rump of the 

 Coke's is lighter than the others. All three, in 

 shape, stand very high at the withers, and their 

 backs slope down to their quarters. 



The horn pedicle in all is high, highest in the 

 Jackson, lowest in the Coke. Jackson's horns 

 go roughly straight and V-shaped up before they 

 bend backwards ; Neumann's bend more out- 

 wards half-way up, looking at the head end-on ; 



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