u6 ANTELOPES 



inches or so, and then smooth. The maximum length of the horns 

 is 26^- inches, good average specimens running to about 25 inches. 



According to the account given by the discoverer of the species, 

 Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, these antelopes on the Tana river associate in 

 herds of from ten to twenty head, which frequent open plains and thin 

 thorn-bush, but are never seen in thick scrub or forest. Mr. Hunter 

 gives the following account of his first meeting with this species : 



" I saw two antelope coming towards me, which in the distance I 

 mistook for impala, a species not found up the Tana, but common 

 round Kilimanjaro, and it was not until I had fired at one of them 

 and missed that I saw, as they ran away with a heavy gallop like a 

 hartebeest, that they were quite new to me. I set to work to track 

 them through the thin bush, and had followed them a long way and 

 was thinking of giving it up when I spied them on an open plain. 

 They saw me at the same moment and commenced to walk away 

 slowly. The plain was so bare and devoid of long grass that stalking 

 or crawling was out of the question, so I risked a run towards them 

 as they were walking slowly straight away from me, and luckily got 

 nearly within 150 yards before they stopped and turned, offering a 

 broadside - shot Sitting down immediately I fired off my knees, 

 hitting one behind the shoulder, which dropped dead, and missing the 

 other. The one bagged turned out to be a young male ; but in the 

 course of a few days we obtained several specimens, of which a pair 

 are mounted in the British Museum." 



THE KORRIGUM, TIANG, OR TOPI 



(Damaliscus corriguni) 



Korrigum, BORNOW ; Derri, HAUSA ; Tiang, BAHR-EL-GHAZAL ; Topi, 

 BRITISH EAST AFRICA ; Korki, GALLA ; Mangazi, WAGANDA 



(PLATE V, figs. 2, 3) 



Typically a West African species, known to the natives as the 

 korrigum, this antelope is represented on the eastern side of the 

 continent by local races, of which tiang and topi are the native 

 designations. As these races were originally regarded as distinct 

 species, their native names have come into general use, although it 

 would have simplified matters had they been respectively called the 

 Bahr-el-Ghazal and the East African korrigum ; when the typical 



