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between the two races. It is the smallest of the group and stands no 

 more than from 43 to 45 inches at the shoulder. The general colouring 

 is a grayish-brown. Few specimens of horns are known in this country. 

 The best recorded pair seem to be those in the Natural History Museum, 

 which measure > 4 i inches over the outer curve. The habitat of the 

 bubal hartebeest is the remoter parts of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. It 

 is found also in Arabia, and was described by Canon Tristram as certainly 

 existing " on the borders of Gilead and Moab." H. A. Bryden. 



West African Hartebeest (Bubalis major) 



« Body of a uniform grayish-brown ; face deep brown ; fore-legs streaked 

 with dark brown or blackish from the knees downwards. 1 Terminal tuft 

 of tail black. Frontal bone between the base of the horns and orbit 

 convex, whilst in other species the same part is remarkably flat." 2 



Facial length, 7 i inches; muzzle to orbit, 13 inches; breadth of 

 forehead, 4.4 inches. 



Horns diverging from each other at an even rounded curve, so as to 

 form together a U when viewed from the front ; this character, besides, 

 only exists in B. boselaphus. 



Horns have been procured measuring up to 25I inches over the outer 

 curve ; the annulation is very prominent on the anterior surface. Height 

 at shoulder, about 45 inches. There are no complete specimens of this 

 antelope, but Messrs. Sclater and Thomas state that Edward Blyth, writing 

 to the Zoological Society in 1869, pointed out the above-mentioned specific 

 differences, which he said he had noted from a perfect skin. 



He was of opinion that some mounted specimens he saw in the 

 Museums of Leyden and Amsterdam belonged to this larger form, though 

 labelled B. boselaphus. 



Major Arnold 



the following article. — Ed 



Brooke M.S., quoted in The Book of Antelope,, by Messrs. P. L. Sclater and Oldfield Thoma: 



