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The habitat of the Tora, or Tetel, may be described as Upper Nubia, 



Kordofan, and portions of Abyssinia. TT , „ 



f y H. A. Brvden. 



Neumann's Hartebeest (Bubalis torn neumanni) 



(The East African Tora Hartebeest) 



Ndorobo Name, Nginya 



Of this hartebeest, which I was so fortunate as to be the first to bring 

 to the notice of naturalists, very little is really known yet. 



It may be the same as that mentioned by the German traveller 

 Heuglin, under the name of " Lelwel," but of which no trace can be 

 found in any museum. A skull (said to have been obtained on the Mau 

 plateau in the neighbourhood of the Ravine station on the Uganda road), 

 which was brought to England some time previously to mine, but was 

 supposed to be a hybrid, probably belongs to this form ; and the speci- 

 men alluded to as a hybrid by Mr. F. J. Jackson in the " Badminton 

 Library," which had been obtained by Mr. Gedge, must, doubtless, have 

 been one of the same kind. I may mention, too, that in a former 

 expedition, many years ago, I saw hartebeest in the more southerly 

 part of the great Mau region, which I then took for B. cokei, but which 

 I now believe to have been of the species under consideration. But it 

 was not until I brought home two skulls (<? and f> ) with scalps and a 

 flat skin that it could be established and described. Since then, Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson has brought to this country several complete specimens, obtained 

 by him in the neighbourhood of the small lakes Nakuru and Elmeteita, 

 a little north of Lake Naivasha, where he tells me he found them in 

 small herds with a few odd individuals of B. jacksoni among them ; and 

 he says that he had long noticed the unusual appearance of these harte- 

 beests and suspected them to be something new, but had never before 



