170 Great and Small Game of Africa 



In 1840 Whitfield, a collector employed by Lord Derby, obtained 

 living specimens near Macarthy's Island on the Gambia River, and brought 

 them safely to Knowsley. Here they bred and thrived, but the only 

 perfect examples extant in England now are two mounted specimens 

 in the Derby Museum, now in Liverpool. Messrs. Sclater and Thomas 

 have no doubt that these were specimens formerly living in the Knowsley 

 Menagerie. 



There is a doubt whether this animal has not been recently obtained 

 by German collectors on the north and west of Lake Victoria Nyanza, but 

 reliable evidence of this has not yet been obtained sufficient to prove that 

 it is not Dama/ucus corrigum jimela. Percy Rendall. 



The Korrigum or Senegal Hartebeest (Damaliscus corrigum typicus) 

 In Nigeria 

 Hausa Name, Kanki 

 The Senegal hartebeest is but little known to sportsmen, and appears to 

 be mainly confined to Senegambia. The only place in Nigeria where it is 

 met with to my knowledge is on the banks of the Benue, between Ibi and 

 Yola. It is distinguished from the Bubalis major chiefly by a slightly 

 increased weight, shorter face, more irregular horn, and also by the colour 

 and texture of its coat. The colour of the Senegal hartebeest, as found on 

 the Benue, is of a dark brown with deeper brown points, and its coat has a 

 beautiful and peculiar "watered-silk" appearance. The horn lacks the 

 regularity of angle which characterises that of the West African hartebeest, 

 and has only a slight curve outwards, then slightly forwards, and finally 

 backwards, but all curves are irregular and slight. It is also thick through- 

 out its length, does not taper in any way gracefully, and is altogether an 

 ugly horn. A. J. Arnold. 



