144 Great and Small Game of Africa 



" Colour of hair fulvous fawn, much richer on the back ; below, very 

 much paler. Chin blackish, tip of tail black. The male is brighter and 

 darker in colour than the female." There are no marks on the face. 

 When seen from behind, the animal has the appearance of having a con- 

 spicuous light patch on the stern. 



I am again under an obligation to Mr. F. J. Jackson for measurements. 

 He gives me the following : — Height of male, 4 feet 2\ inches to 4 feet 

 3A inches ; female, 3 feet 1 1 inches to 4 feet \ inch. 



A large bull might probably weigh, complete, about 400 lbs. 



A. H. Neumann. 



Swayne's Hartebeest {Bubalis swaynei) 

 Somali Name, Sig 



In Somaliland hartebeests are found in the elevated country above the 

 ghauts, either in the open, treeless grass plains, known as " ban," or in the 

 light fringe of prairie land, dotted with low thorn bushes, which forms a 

 belt round the edges of these open grass plains. 



There are none, and I believe there never were any, in the open plains 

 near Zeyla, or in other open plains of the Esa country ; for, though the 

 configuration of the country appears to be in other respects favourable for 

 hartebeests, the grass is probably not of the right kind in these lower 

 plains. 



In the Marar prairie, and other great open spaces which occur in the 

 enormous thorn forests of the Haud waterless plateau, they were — at least 

 up to 1893 — very numerous, running in herds of five hundred or sometimes 

 even a thousand, packed closely together, and looking like masses of cavalry. 

 Many herds would be visible, as far as the eye could reach, probably ten 

 thousand being within sight at one time. Hundreds of single bulls would 

 be scattered over the plains between the herds, grazing or lying down, and 



