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alert than the cobs, and was always the first to set the 

 example of departure. 



The typical race ranges through Western Africa north 

 of the Equator, and eastwards through the Sudan. 



VAUGHAN'S COB. Apparently intermediate between 

 the Uganda cob and the white-eared cob, is found to the 

 west of the Upper Nile. 



THE WHITE-EARED COB. Is found along the various 

 branches of the Upper Nile, between Bor and the Sobat. 



THE REEDBUCKS. These animals are in some respects 

 not unlike the cobs, but are generally of smaller size and 

 have very bushy and short tails, they also have glandular 

 and naked spots on the side of the head below the ears. 



THE COMMON REEDBUCK. This antelope is still found 

 somew r hat sparingly in the Cape Colony. It is common 

 in the lowlands of Natal and Zululand, the Transvaal 

 bush country, Ngamiland, German South- West Africa, 

 Rhodesia, both north and south of the Zambezi, to Angola 

 on the west and Nyasaland and Mo9ambique on the east. 

 Lately the species has been discovered to exist so far 

 north as the southern Sudan. 



Reedbuck favour what are known in South Africa as 

 " vleis," that is to say, grassy or reedy valleys near 

 streams or permanent water of some kind ; occasionally 

 they are met \\ith in thin bush. Although partial to the 

 close proximity of water, they appear to avoid entering it, 

 nor have I ever seen or heard of them taking to it when 

 pursued, as do waterbuck and impala. They associate 

 in family parties of three or four, and solitary rams are 

 often seen. Their pace is not great, and they are cursed 

 with an inquisitiveness which often proves fatal to 

 them. When frightened they move off with a rocking- 

 horse action, the quarters thrown high with every stride, 

 and the bushy tail erected fanwise over the rump. 



