UGANDA KOB 



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Skull and 1 lorns of Uganda Kob. 



UGANDA KOB (Cobus thomasi). 

 Waganda name, Nsuna, N'Snnu, or Snnu. 



The East African representative of Buffon's kob, from which it is 

 distinguished mainly by its superior size, and the presence of a 

 complete white ring round each eye, instead of having only a white 

 line above the same. General colour rich fulvous, with the muzzle, 

 lips, chin, under parts, and inner surfaces of upper portion of fore-legs 

 and thighs white ; front of fore-legs with a black line, and hind-legs 

 with a similar line, which does not, however, ascend within some dis- 

 tance of the hocks. Height at shoulder about 35^ inches. 



Distribution. East Africa, from Kavirondo to Uganda. 



