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developed sense of smell, as they rely almost entirely on eyesight to pick up an enemy. Their 

 intelligence appears to be of the slightest, and they fall an easy prey to lions. They occur 

 practically on every open plain east of the Rift Valley, excepting some of the dry, waterless 

 plains to the north ; they also occur south of the Rift Valley, from Naivasha to the German 

 border. They meet with the Jackson's hartebeest north of Solai and Olbolossat, and also near 

 the German border at the back of the Kisii country. 



HARTEBEEST, JACKSON'S. 



Native Names. 



(The natives do not appear to distinguish between this and Coke's hartebeest.) 



Ogiek (Ravine) Rokoyuet. Masai 01-korikor. 



Nandi Kimigosiet. 



This animal is slightly darker than the Coke's hartebeest, and is easily distinguished from the 

 latter by the horns which grow vertically upwards from the head instead of outwards. The horn 

 pedicles are very high, which make the face look even longer than with most hartebeests. 



In the Rift Valley all three kinds of hartebeests are met with, viz., Coke's south of Naivasha, 

 Jackson's north of Solai, and Neumann's between these two places. The Jackson's and Coke's 

 are divided from each other by the Neumann's where this latter animal exists, but north and south 

 of the area occupied by Neumann's they meet without any intermediate type separating them. 

 The Jackson's hartebeest is the commonest game animal in East Africa north and west of the 

 Rift Valley. It also occurs plentifully in Uganda and the Lado Enclave. It inhabits equally well 

 some of the hottest and some of the coldest parts of these countries, occurring on the Nile near 

 Gondokoro, and on the Mau summit and Guas Ngishu plateau, over 8000 feet in altitude. 



HARTEBEEST, NEUMANN'S. 



Native Names. 

 (The natives do not appear to distinguish between this animal and the kongoni.) 



This animal is very local, occurring only in a small area in the Rift Valley, viz., bounded 

 on north by Lake Solai, west by Lake Nakuru, south by Lake Naivasha, and east by the 

 Aberdares and Kipipiri. In this locality it divides the areas inhabited by Jackson's and Coke's 

 hartebeests. It is evidently an intermediate type between these two, and is, no doubt, the result 

 of former hybrid breeding inter se. The horns are exactly mid-way between the high, vertical 

 horns of the Jackson's and the more horizontal horns of the Coke's. The coat is of a colour 

 intermediate between these two species, being not quite so dark as the Jackson's nor so light as 

 the Coke's. The horns are often very massive for hartebeests, and seem to be on an average more 

 bulky than either of the other two. Cases have often been observed of one of these animals 

 running in a herd of Jackson's or Coke's, or one of the latter running in a herd of Neumann's. 

 Intermediate types between Neumann's and one of the other hartebeests are reported from time 

 to time, which tends to prove that these animals occasionally breed with either of the other two 

 types. The area occupied by these animals is all taken up as private or syndicate land, and so 

 to obtain specimens leave would have to be obtained from some landholder in the Rift Valley. 

 They occur in considerable numbers north of Lake Elementaita and east of Lake Nakuru. 



South of Olbolossat and on the Kinangop plateau they also occur, but are scarce. 



