ioo THE MAMMALS OF ETHIOPIAN AFRICA 



is suggested by the Boer name of bastard hartebeest for the sassabi. The herola, 

 which ranges from southern Somaliland to the north bank of the Tana, and stands 

 about 4 feet at the withers, is easily recognised by the spectacle-shaped white 

 markings between and around the eyes, and the peculiar shape of the long, slender 

 horns. The latter curve at first outwards and then point straight upwards ; the 

 long straight terminal portion being devoid of rings. The korrigum (D. corrigum) 



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of Senegal is the typical race of a short and thick horned dark red species with a 

 blackish face-blaze and dark limb-markings, which extends across the continent to 

 Kordofan and Uganda, where its local races are respectively known as the tiang 

 (D. c. tiang) and the topi (D. c. jimela). Most of these antelopes are swamp- 

 dwellers, the name tiang meaning, in Suahili, mud ; but another race (D. c. jonesi) 

 of the upper part of the eastern Sudan, which is browner in colour, is stated to be 

 a desert animal. In the korrigum the horns, which are ringed nearly to their tips, 



