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Bubalis tora, Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 59, 1892, ed. 6, p. 128, 

 1910; Lydckkcr, Horn* and Hoof 9, p. 198, 1898, (treat and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 133, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 100, 

 1908 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 15, 1894 ; 

 Rothschild, Powett-Cotton'i Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, 

 p. 461, 1902. 



TORA. 



Typical locality Abyssinia, to which country, together 

 with the lower part of the Blue Nile basin, this species 

 appears to be restricted. 



FIG. 1. SKULL AND HORNS OF TORA HARTEBEEST (Bubalis tora). 



Size, typically, much the same as in the preceding species ; 

 the shoulder-height ranging, it is stated, from 4 to 4J feet. 

 Horns, which surmount a pedicle of medium height, in the 

 form of a wide inverted bracket, and very slender ; general 

 colour ranging from pale fulvous, with or without a 

 distinct dirty white rurnp-patch to deep rufous ; tail-tuft 

 black. 



