Neumann's Hartebeest 143 



This species is the only true hartebeest found anywhere in the region 

 where I met with it. With the exception of the topi, which belongs to a 

 different genus, there is no other hartebeest within several hundred miles. 

 The nearest point, so far as I know, where a congener occurs is at the western 

 base of the Lorogi Mountains, where Jackson's hartebeest has the extreme 

 limit of its range. Coke's is still farther away, none being found north 

 of the Jambeni Hills, nor east of the Mackenzie branch of the Tana River. 



Via. z 2 .— Head of Female and Skull of Male of Neumann's Hartebeest. 



In general appearance, habits, action, etc., these resemble the other 

 hartebeests, among all of which there is such a characteristic similarity. 

 There is the same grotesquely shaped head, with rather short crooked 

 horns, and the long face which gives them all such a quaint expression ; 

 the high withers and sloping back ; and the peculiar, bouncing gait, 

 which carries these rather ungraceful-looking creatures over the ground at 

 such an astonishing pace. The colour resembles that of Coke's, but the 

 beast itself is considerably larger, and its general outline is more like Bubalis 

 torn. In the published description it is thus depicted : — 



