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be unapproachable within 300 yards. One was 

 wounded, but got away. 



These animals looked like Button's cob in the 

 distance, but were darker in colour and had 

 bigger horns. They were certainly not red lechwe, 

 and though about the size of black lechwe, had 

 a lighter coloured coat. 



The natives said that these cob were numerous 

 along both the Coanza and Loando and many of 

 their tributaries, and that we should meet many of 

 them on our march south. The apparent certainty 

 of obtaining other specimens induced me to leave 

 the cob country and continue the search for the 

 sable. Unfortunately I never again shot one 

 of these animals, and the skull of the cob wounded 

 on the Loando (and picked up two days later) is 

 the only specimen obtained of what may be indeed 

 a new species of antelope, unless it is the animal 

 described by Baum as Adcnota ambuellensis. 



