BUFFO WS KOB 



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The eastern or Uganda race (C. c. thomasi], which was described 

 by Mr. O. Neumann in the Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1896, 

 p. 193, as Adenota thomasi, is considerably larger than the typical 

 Guinea kob, standing as much as 35^ inches at the shoulder. It is 



WHITE-EARED KOB 



FIG. 43. Head of the White-eared Kob. 



further distinguished by having a large white patch round each eye, 

 and the absence (at least in the specimen exhibited in the British 

 Museum) of the white fetlock-ring ; while the black on the fore -limbs 

 docs not reach the shoulder, and that on the hind pair stops some 

 distance short of the hocks. The horns arc stated to be yellower in 



