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country, and in the Shoa country, Abyssinia. A very 

 handsome species, pale chocolate-brown in colour. 



Coke's hartebeest (B. cokei) (Kongoni of the 

 Swahilis) is the commonest and most widely dis- 

 tributed of this group in East Africa. Its range, as 

 far as at present known, extends from near the 

 boundary of British and German East Africa in the 

 south to Kikuyu, Mount Kenia, and the Mackenzie 

 branch of the Tana river, in the north. Westward, 

 it is not found much beyond the longitude of 

 Naivasha. The colour of this hartebeest is of a 

 pale yellowish-red, somewhat darker in the bulls. 



Jackson's hartebeest (B. jacksoni} is also known 

 to the Swahilis as Kongoni. By the Masai it is called 

 Elgusoroi and Elgorigor, and by the Wandorobo 

 Rogoivek. This hartebeest is the nearest cousin of 

 the Cape hartebeest, to which, save for the face 

 lacking the black marking, it bears a strong resem- 

 blance. Its habitat is not yet clearly defined, but 

 its headquarters are the Mau plateau and Turkwel, 

 British East Africa, its range extending west to the 

 Nile Valley. 1 



Lichtenstein s hartebeest (B. lichtemteini] is a more 

 southern species, having a wide habitat, from the 

 Sabi river, south-east Africa, through Nyasaland and 

 Mozambique to the latitude of Zanzibar. It may be 

 easily recognised by the shape of the horns, which 

 differ from those of all other hartebeests, curving 

 backwards and inwards very curiously. 



1 The so-called Heugliri s hartebeest, found in the Bahr-el-Ghazal, Upper 

 Nubia, and Kordofan, seems to be an identical species with Jackson's. 



