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South Africa in vast herds, so now the Coke hartebeest 

 may be seen in his thousands upon the Athi Plains of 

 British East Africa, sometimes combined in considerable 

 troops, at others mixed impartially with gazelles and 

 zebras. Hartebeests are essentially grass eaters, and 

 they like to drink regularly. 



THE CAPE HARTEBEEST. Once existing in immense 

 numbers in Cape Colony ; now found in the more remote 

 north-western districts as far as Lake Ngami, also in 

 Bechuanaland and the north-west of the Transvaal. 



LICHTENSTEIN'S HARTEBEEST. Seldom found south of 

 the greater Sabi River, thence through Mashonaland and 

 Portuguese East Africa to the Zambezi. North of this 

 river the species extends through Mo9ambique, Portu- 

 guese and British Nyasaland, the whole of Northern 

 Rhodesia as far west as the Zambezi valley to German 

 East Africa, towards the north of which territory its 

 place is taken by the next species. 



COKE'S HARTEBEEST. Extends from German East 

 Africa, through British territory as far north as Lake 

 Rudolph, but is not found west of the longitude of Lake 

 Naivasha. 



NEUMANN'S HARTEBEEST. This is a very local species, 

 showing resemblances both to Coke's and Jackson's 

 hartebeests. It is found to the north-east of Lake 

 Rudolph, and also between Lakes Nakura and Baringo 

 in British East Africa. 



THE LELWEL HARTEBEEST. The typical race of this 

 species inhabits the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and thence exists 

 along the west bank of the Nile, northwards. It has a 

 dark face blaze. Another variety of this hartebeest has 

 no face blaze, but I do not agree with some writers that 

 the tips of the horns are always either parallel or slightly 

 inclining inwards, having shot several specimens in which 



