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VI. KOBUS (ONOTEAGUS) MAEIA. 



Adenota megaceros, Fitzinger (ex Heugliri), Sitzber. 7c. Ak. Wiss. 

 Wien, vol. xvii, p. 247, 1855, nomen nudum ; Heuglin, Nova 

 Ada Ac. Cces. Leop.-Car. vol. xxx, pt. 2, p. 14, pi. ii, figs. 7, 8, 

 1863 ; Marno, Beise JEgypt. JEquat. Prov. p. 40, 1878. 



Kobus maria, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, vol. iv, p. 296, 1859, 

 Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 16, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants 

 Brit. Mus. p. 87, 1873 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 239, 1862 ; Petherick, Travels in Central Africa, vol. i, p. 159, 

 1869. 



Kobus megaceros, Marno, Reise Geb. blauen u. weissen Nil, p. 387, 

 1874. 



Cobus mariae, Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 91, 1892; Bryden, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 287, 1899; Thomas, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 34. 



Cobus maria, Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, p. 224, 1893, Great and 

 Small Game of Africa, p. 269, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, 

 p. 205, 1908 ; Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. ii, 

 p. 121, pi. xxxvii, 1896 ; Rothschild, Powell-Cotton's Sporting Trip 

 through Abyssinia, p. 466, 1902 ; Ward, Records of Big Game, 

 ed. 6, p. 198, 1910 ; Goldschmidt- Rothschild, Ber. Senckenberg. 

 Ges. vol. xliii, p. 1, pi. i, 1912. 



Kobus mariae, Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 916. 



Onototragus megaceros, Heller, Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, 

 No. 7, p. 12, 1913. 



Typical locality Awan, Bahr-el-Ghazal. 



Size rather less than that of leche ; shoulder-height about 

 38 inches. Hair of back reversed ; general colour dark 

 blackish brown in adult males ; chin and a narrow band on 

 upper lip, inner side of ears, a band on hind part of head, 

 sometimes continued down nape, a large patch above the 

 shoulders, middle of abdomen, inner sides of hind-legs, and 

 a broad band above hoofs white ; a spot in front of eyes, 

 and space between eyes and ears whitish; tail relatively 

 long and slender, reaching about to hocks, blackish brown 

 above, inclusive of whole terminal tuft, and white below ; 

 hoofs relatively long ; horns long and slender, heavily ridged 

 nearly to tips, inclining at first backwards, diverging and 

 curving forwards in the middle, and then bending back- 

 wards and inwards towards the tips, so as to form a 

 distinctly double, or sigmoid, flexure. Good horns measure 

 from 28 to 32 inches in length, with a girth of from 6J to 

 7J, and a tip-to-tip interval of from 12 to 21^ inches. 



