THE HARTEBEESTS AND GNUS 113 



THE BUBAL AND OTHER HARTEBEESTS 



The hartebeests bear so strong a family resemblance 

 and have so much the same characteristics that it 

 would be superfluous to describe them at length. 

 The Bubal hartebeest (Bubalis voselaphus} is found in 

 the remoter parts of Tunis, Morocco, and Algeria. It 

 is one of the very few African wild ruminants whose 

 range extends into Asia. It may still be found in 

 the deserts of Arabia, and, some thirty years ago, 

 was described by Canon Tristram as existing " on 

 the borders of Gilead and Moab." The West- 

 African hartebeest (B. major} is an almost exactly 

 similar antelope to the Bubal ; its habitat lies chiefly 

 in Senegal, Gambia, Lower Nigeria, and the 

 Cameroons, in which countries it is one of the 

 commonest game animals. 



The Tora or Tetel (B. tora} is a typical harte- 

 beest in size, shape, and colouring much resembling 

 its Cape congener. It is found in Upper Nubia, 

 portions of Abyssinia, and Kordofan. 



Neumann s hartebeest (B. neumannt] (Nginya of 

 the Wandorobo) may be described as a Tora of 

 very local distribution, found in East Africa in the 

 vicinity of Lake Rudolf, near Lakes Nakuru and 

 Elmeteita, just north of Lake Naivasha, on the Mau 

 plateau, and probably in some few other districts. 



Swaynes hartebeest (B. sway net] (Sig of the 

 Somalis, Korkei of the Gallas) is found in various 

 parts of Somaliland, especially in the waterless Haud 



