1 66 Great and Small Game of Africa 



A. Horns doubly curved, at first directed upwards and outwards, then 

 bending slightly downwards, after which their long smooth tips again point 

 upwards. 



i. Hunter's Hartebeest (Damaliscus humeri). 



B. Horns curving regularly backwards or slightly lyre-shaped, with 

 only the short tips recurving upwards. 



2. Korrigum (Damaliscus carrigum). 



a. Typical race (D. corrigum typhus). 



b. Topi (D. corrigum jimela). 



c. Tiang (D. corrigum Hang). 



3. Bontebok {Damaliscus pygargus). 



4. Blesbok [Damaliscus albifrons). 



C. Horns at first inclined outwards, with a single crescentic curve 

 upwards and backwards. 



5. Tsessebe or Sassaby (Damaliscus lunatus). 



The second and third races of No. 2 are generally regarded as distinct 

 species, but seem rather to be local modifications of the first. 



Hunter's Hartebeest (Damaliscus hunteri) 

 Galla Name, Hcrola 

 The general colouring of this antelope is rufous, very much the same 

 as the well-known Coke's hartebeest, with the exception that the lower half 

 of the tail is white and that it has also a well-marked white line on the fore- 

 head, stretching upwards from each eye in the form of a very open inverted V. 

 Unfortunately, I never took any body measurements of the only specimens 

 which have, so far as I know, hitherto been shot, but, speaking roughly, 

 this animal is about the size of a fallow buck. The hind-quarters slope 

 away slightly from the shoulders like the hartebeest's. The horns stretch 

 backwards in a curve and then upwards, being deeply annulated for the 



