THE SELOTJS COLLECTION. 15 



Size medium, shoulder-height about 48 inches. Horns wide- 

 spread and bracket-shaped, good horns measuring from 17 to 21 

 inches on front curve. Head comparatively short, much shorter 

 than in the Lelwel Hartebeests. General colour reddish or 

 brownish buff. 



The specimen from Yoi (No. 19. 7. 15. 75) possesses the best 

 horns : — length on front curve 17 ; circumference 10 ; spread from 

 tip to tip 15 1 . 



Typical locality, Usagara, Tanganyika Territory ; range includes 

 the southern jDart of Kenya Colony south-west of the Tana River 

 and extends southwards into Tanganyika Territory. The Coke 

 Hartebeest found in the highlands of Kenya Colony from the eastern 

 slopes of Mt. Kenya and Lake Naivasha southwards to the Victoria 

 Nyanza and north-west part of Tanganjdka Territory has been 

 described by Heller* as a distinct race, under the name kongoni. 

 Fi-om the material at present available for examination the 

 distinctive characters attributed to this form do not seem to justify 

 such a separation, and thus the specimens shot by Selous at Simba 

 and in the Naivaslia Province are here referred to the typical form. 



38-39 —19. 7. 15. 71-72. January, 1903. Simba, Ulu District, 



Kenya Colony. 

 40-41 —19. 7. 15. 73-74 (females). 16 January, 1903. Simba, Ulu 



District, Kenya Colony. 



42 —19. 7. 15. 75. 28 January, 1903. Voi, Taita and Taveta 



District, Kenya Colony. 



43 — 19. 7. 15. 76. Naivasha Province, Kenya- Colony. 



NAKURU HARTEBEEST. 



Alcelaphus COKET K^AKUE-^. 



Buhalis nakurae, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix. no. 8, p. 6, 1912. 

 Buhalis colcei nahurae, Lydekker & Blaine, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. vol. ii. p. 16, 1914. 



Similar in size to the typical race ; distinguished by the horns 

 being less widely spread, more as in the Neumann Hartebeest, to 

 which form Selous referred his specimens in the " Catalogue of 

 Trophies. Specimens of Natural History," Worplesdon, 1903. 



The best head in the following series is No. 19. 7. 15. 64, 



* Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ix. no. 8, p. 5, 1912. 



