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which are supported on a very short and wide pedicle, 

 relatively short and thick, with a somewhat S-like curvature, 

 very broad and flattened at base, then bending sharply 

 inwards at an angle of about 45, and then inclined 

 backwards, with the tips more or less nearly parallel; 

 general colour fulvous, becoming distinctly rufous over a 

 large area on back ; chin, tail-crest (which reaches just below 

 hocks, and occupies about three-quarters of length of tail), 



FIG. 5. HEAD OF LIGHTEN STEIN'S HARTEBEEST (Bubalis lichtensteini). 



and front of fore-shanks and lower part of front of hind- 

 shanks black or blackish ; lower part of rump pale yellowish 

 or dirty white, contrasting strongly with rufous of back ; 

 face-glands not tufted. Skull with a short frontal but an 

 elongated nasal region, so that the total length (14f inches) 

 is much the same as in B. caama ; maximum width 

 7J inches. The horn-pedicle immediately above the plane 

 of the hind margin of the occipital condyles, whereas 



