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PUKU. 



ADENOTA YAKDOKE VARDONI. 



Antilope vardoni, Livingstone, Missionary Travels S. Africa, p. 256 and 



pi. 9, p. 71, 1857. 

 Cobus vardoni, Selous, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 759, pi. Ixv. ; A Hunter's 



Wanderings in S. Africa, pp. Ill, 147, and 219, pi. v., 1881. 

 Kobus vardoni, Nicolls and Eglington, Sportsman in S. Africa, p. 43, 



1892. 



Adenota vardoni, Matschie, Siiugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrika, p. 126, 1895. 

 Cobus vardoni typicus, Selous, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 294, 



1899. 

 Kobus (Adenota) vardoni, Lydekker and Elaine, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. 



Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 268, 1914. 

 Kobus vardoni vardoni, Lydekker and Elaine, Cat. Ungulate Mamm. 



Brit. Mus. vol. ii. p. 269, 1914. 



General colour much as in tJiomasi ; white orbital markings less 

 prominent, backs of ears reddish brown, tips black. No black 

 markings on legs. Horns short and stout, good specimens from 

 18 to 20| inches in length. 



The two heads in the Collection have horns of modem te length 

 only, No. 19. 7. 15. 282 measuring as follows : length on front 

 curve 16; circumference 6| ; spread from tip to tip 6f. 



Typical locality, Chobe Valley ; range extends from the 

 Zambesi and Chobe through Northern Rhodesia as far as Lake 

 Bangweolo. 



In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the year 

 1881 (quoted above) Selous gives the following account of the 

 distribution of this Antelope : " The only place where I myself 

 met with this Antelope was in a small tract of country extending 

 along the southern bank of the Chobe for about sixty miles 

 westwards from its junction with the Zambesi. 



" They are never found at more than 200 or 300 yards from the 

 river, and are usually to be seen cropping bhe short grass along the 

 water's edge, or lying in the shade of the trees and bushes 

 scattered over the alluvial flats which have been formed here and 

 there by the shifting of the river's bed. Now and then a few 

 must wander eastwards along the southern bank of the Zambesi as 

 far as the Victoria Falls, as I saw my friend Mr. J. L. Garden 



