XXI 



WATERBUCK 



CO BUS DEFASSA SING-SING 



Arabic : Abu Usuf. 



THERE is only one variety of this 

 beautiful buck to be found on the 

 White Nile, the Sing -Sing. We 

 have left the common waterbuck 

 {Cobus ellypiprimius) far behind us in British 

 East Africa and far to the southwards ; so there 

 are no dreadful conundrums to be solved here as 

 to which variety is which, or where which is 

 found, as may be said to exist amongst some of 

 the other animals described. 



Anyone who has been out for a day with the 

 Devon and Somerset after the red deer on Ex- 

 moor would be immensely struck at the extra- 

 ordinary likeness in general colouring, as well 

 as in build and shape, of the red deer to this 

 glorious buck ; and so at first sight he should be 

 unmistakable to the stranger. iBut there the 

 likeness ceases, as his horns are quite different, 

 spreading slightly backwards and outwards, up 

 and then rather towards one another ; thick and 



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