KONGONI OR COKES HARTEBEEST 



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KONGONI or COKE'S HAETEBEEST (Bubalis cokei). 

 Horn-pedicle moderate, horns bracket-shaped, very short and thick. 

 Height at shoulder about 45 inches. Weight about 250 Ibs. General 

 colour uniform bright fawn, with the lower lip somewhat browner, and 

 the lower part of the rump paler ; tail long, with the black tuft ascend- 

 ing some way up the hinder surface. 



Distribution. Eastern Africa, from Usagara northwards to 

 Kilimanjaro and Masailand. 



Mr. F. J. Jackson says: "This hartebeest ranges as far north as 

 L. Naivasha, south into German territory and east to within a few 

 miles of the coast at the back of the Shimba hills." A bull shot by 

 Capt. R. A. J. Montgomerie, C.B., R.N., in Masailand weighed 312 Ibs. 



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Owner. 



Julius Jeppe. 



R. Meinertzhagen. 



J. Gardiner Muir. 



R. Wahrmann. 



P. C. Keytel. 



Major E. G. Harrison. 



Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 



O. Neumann. 



