APPENDIX III.— MAMMALS 467 



Cclnis tiigroscapiilatics. — Bahr-el-Gebel. 

 Cobus leiccoiis. — Upper Nile, Bahr-el-Gazal, and Gobat. 

 Cobus thomasi. — Kavirondo and Uganda. 

 Cobus kob. — West Africa from the Gambia to the Niger. 

 Cobus vardoui. — Chobe and Zambesi valleys and Rhodesia. 

 Cobus sejigcuius. — Barotzeland and Nyasaland. 



Cobus loderi. — Habitat? P\)unded on skull and horns, possibly = 

 C. smithemaiii. 



Cobus lechee. — Zambesia and Barotzeland. 

 Cobus, sp. — Nigeria. 



eiglit. Girth. Length. 



45 51A 12.S1.98 



I. On the Hawash. 2. Towards Metemmeh. 



■ They were also seen near Burey, Shimerler Jowee, and along the west 

 bank of Lake Tana ; several times among thorn trees or dried-up hill-tops, 

 very different to the dense riverside vegetation where they were found in 

 Somaliland on a previous trip. 



Cervicapra reduncn bohor {Ruip^.). Abyssinian Reedbuck. 

 (Native name, "Bohor"; Galla name, " Borufa.") 



This antelope was described by Riippell, but its identity seems after- 

 wards to have been lost, for the name bo/io?- has been applied in later 

 times to several other species and races of reedbuck such as Cervicapra 

 artmdifteu7ii, C. wardi, and others. Dr. Giinther, in the P.Z.S. 1890, 

 identified the East African reedbuck as C. bohoi\ and it is due to Mr. 

 Oldfield Thomas, who pointed out Dr. Giinther's error in the Anttals and 

 Magazine of Naticral History, 1900, pp. 303, 304, that the confusion was 

 cleared up ; though it still remained for Mr. Powell-Cotton's material to 

 prove that true C. r. boho7- was confined to Abyssinia, and that the forms 

 from the White Nile and Lake Rudolf were yet again two further un- 

 described races. 



Mr. Powell-Cotton says : " I have counted as many as thirty at a time 

 feeding in groups of about four, but herds usually number from four to 

 twelve. 



" They generally lie down among the long grass by a stream during 

 mid-day. I tried walking them up, but they always broke too far ahead for 



