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UGANDA COB 



CO BUS THOMASI 



Sudanese : Ariel 



WE can't leave Uganda without first 

 having our say about this pretty ante- 

 lope. At first sight he looks very 

 like an impallah, but he is not of quite 

 so bright a red, and he is more coarsely built than 

 the latter. The red shades to white on his belly, 

 and the patch round his eyes is light fawn instead 

 of the dead white of his closely allied cousin — 

 the white-eared cob of the Sudan. The horns 

 are lyre-shaped, sweeping backwards and out- 

 wards, and bending well forward again at the 

 tips. 



Being a cob, he is of course very closely related 

 to the waterbucks, so that he is no connection at 

 all of the impallah, and it is a strange thing that 

 nature has planted him in Uganda to take the 

 place of the pretty impallah next door in East 

 Africa. 



You will find him with three or four does, or 

 by himself, in wettish marshy ground at no great 

 distance from water ; and when alarmed, off they 



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