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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Owner. 



A. Mathews. 



Dudley West. 



J. H. Hayes. 



Capt. J. S. Brogden. 



C. C. Bowring. 



British Museum. 



R. H. Storey. 



F. Lean. 



British Museum (F. C. Selous). 



F. Vaughan Kirby. 



HUNTER'S HARTEBEEST (Damaliscus hunteri). 



Somali name, Arole. 



Gala name, Blanketta. 



With this species we come to a group of antelopes closely allied to 

 the true hartebeests, but in which the frontal region is not elevated 

 into a horn-pedicle, while the horns themselves form in most cases a 

 lyrate or simple curve, and the face is of medium length. In the present 

 species the slender horns are indeed doubly curved, although without 

 the sudden angulation of the true hartebeests. They slant upwards 

 and outwards, and then bend downwards, after which the long points 

 are directed upwards. Colour uniform rufous, with a white chevron 

 on the face, the inner surface of the ears and the tail -tuft white. 

 Height at shoulders about 4 feet, and the build light and graceful. 

 Distribution. Southern Somaliland to north bank of Tana River. 



Length. 

 l Straight. 

 >i 22^ 



Circum- 

 ference. 



Tip to 

 Tip. 



Locality. 



Owner. 



24l 



9-2IJ 

 9 21 

 20| 



51 

 5f 

 51 



9f 

 ii 



7 



Jubaland . . . Major E. G. Harrison. 

 Tana Valley, East Africa Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 



Do. H. C. V. Hunter. 



Do. Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 



Jubaland . . . Major E. G. Harrison. 



Tana River . . . F. H. Barber. 



Do. Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



