328 Mr. G. Blaine on the Koriiyum. 



Tlie liead is rather large, the face concave in profile, uith 

 an elono-ated and slightly tapering muzzle. Ti>e limhs are 

 fine and clean. The tail is slender, of niedinni length, with 

 hair on its upper surface only, and ending in a black tult 

 about the level of the hocks. 



It has bare anteorbital glands, and the female lias two 

 niainmfe. The calves are coloured dull fawn. 



The horns, which are sublyrate in form and strongly but 

 not closely ringed, are stout at their bases, and, rising from 

 the plane of the forehead, curve backwards until their ends- 

 form nearly a right angle with the facial plane, the tips being 

 turned slightly inwards and upwards. 



The general body-colour is light bay, fading to cinnamon 

 on the belly and inside of the thighs. The legs from the 

 knees to the hoofs are cinnamon. A brownish-black band 

 encircles both fore and hind limbs above knees and hocks 

 respectively, and spreads upwards to form a greyish patch on 

 shoulders and quarters. A blackish-grey blaze extends 

 down the face from between the iiorns to the muzzle, and 

 there is a triangular black patch on the occiput. The ears 

 are narrow and pointed, tan on the back with blackish tij.'S, 

 and pale buff inside. 



The coat, which is composed of short, close, stiff hairs, is 

 very fine and glossy, imparting a sleek blood-like appear- 

 ance to the animal. 



Habits. 



The Korrigum is one of the fleetest antelopes. Tn 

 galloping it has beautiful action, flexing both knees and 

 liocks well, and covering the ground in long level strides. 

 In this respect it resembles a racehorse more than any other 

 antelope that I know, and differs from a hartebeeste, which 

 has a stilty gallop, performed with rigidly held limbs, the 

 si)ring appearing to be given by the fetlocks only. 



On the Upper Gambia in the dry season, when the bush- 

 fires have left the ground bare and ])arched, and the fierce 

 heat of the sun intensities daily until the breaking of the 

 rains, Korrigum pack into large herds, two hundred and 

 upwards running in one trooj). They do not then stray 

 farther than 5 or C miles from the river, being always found 

 within that radius in the orchard-bush, which smothers every 

 feature of that wide country in an interminable jungle of 

 small trees. They are grazers, and feed at this season on 

 the young green shoots that spring from the burnt grass- 

 stubs in the bush and on the little plains bordering tlie river, 

 supplementing this scanty diet by digging up bulhs and 

 tubers with their sharply pointed hoofs. They drink at 



