n8 ANTELOPES 



The topi (D. c. jimela), typically from the Juba district of British 

 East Africa to the Sabuki river, ranging thence to Uganda and Uniam- 

 wezi, and also occurring near Lake Rudolf, appears to differ from 

 D. c. typicus by its browner colour, the absence of the dark eye-stripe, 

 and the smaller tail-tuft. Dr. P. Matschie, by whom it was named, 

 describes this race as follows : Colour dark reddish brown, with a silk- 

 like bluish-grey gloss ; shoulders and thighs with blue-black patches ; 

 forehead and nose blackish brown ; no dark stripe running from the 

 frontal blaze below the eye ; under-parts bright cinnamon ; tail-tuft 

 small. Dark markings absent in the young. Horns lyre-shaped, with 

 their tips inclining backwards and inwards. The shoulder-height is 

 about 50 inches, and the weight is stated to range from 250 to 380 Ib. 



A topi (or tiang) from the upper Congo appears to connect D. c. 

 typicus with D. c. jimela, having a faint vestige of the eye-stripe, and 

 being a much browner-coloured almost tan-brown animal than the 

 korrigum, so far at least as can be gathered from the description and plate 

 of the latter in the Book of Antelopes. This Congo topi, of which a 

 mounted specimen shot by Major Powell-Cotton is in the Museum at 

 Tervueren, near Brussels, has the small tail-tuft characteristic of the 

 eastern topi. 



Our knowledge of the true korrigum, which is represented in the 

 galleries of the British Museum only by the horns, is very incomplete. 

 It was named in 1836 on the evidence of horns brought from Bornow 

 by Messrs. Denham and Clapperton on their return from the Nigerian 

 expedition of 1822-24; and in 1840 specimens were living in Lord 

 Derby's menagerie at Knowsley, where they bred. Two of these are 

 exhibited at Liverpool. 



The races from Central and East Africa are much better known, 

 and are represented by complete mounted specimens and heads, as 

 well as skulls and horns, in the exhibition galleries of the British 

 Museum (Natural History). Tiang, it appears, means in Swahili 

 mud ; and these animals, with the exception of the desert race, are 

 inhabitants of swamps and morasses. The desert race, on the other 

 hand, according to information furnished to the author by Sir Robert 

 Harvey, inhabits dry sandy tracts, where it lives for months without 

 water, procuring such liquid as it requires by eating water-melons. 



The following notes on the topi are abbreviated from an account 

 furnished by Mr. A. H. Neumann : 



" In East Africa this antelope occurs quite near the coast and also 

 far in the interior, but there are wide regions where it is unknown, 

 separating the various parts of its range. I met with it in small 



