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and under parts. The insides of the limbs and the fetlocks are also white. 

 The outer portions of the limbs are blackish-brown. The horns of the 

 male run from about 17 to 21 or 22 inches, the best recorded specimen, in 

 the Paris Museum, measuring 2lf inches over the curve. The female 

 is, like the rest of the waterbucks, hornless. This antelope stands at 

 the shoulder about 35 inches, a mounted specimen in the Turin Museum 

 measuring exactly that height. 



This remarkable water antelope, which has much the same curiously 

 " pied " appearance as its near congener Mrs. Gray's waterbuck, has 

 apparently a somewhat wider range southward. Schweinfurth, in his well- 

 known Heart of Africa, mentions having found it very plentifully on the 

 rivers of the Niam-Niam country, where it ranged in large troops, 

 numbering as many as 300 individuals, and Junker seems to have met with 

 it on the Upper Welle. It has the same trick of leaping in the air in 

 its gallop — when pursued or startled — as has the lechwe, another of the 

 water antelopes, a distant southern cousin of this kob. Although familiar 

 to Petherick, Baker, Heuglin, and other travellers of the sixties and 

 seventies, the white-eared kob is at the present day almost completely 

 unknown to sportsmen. H. A. Bryden. 



The Uganda Kob (Coins thomasi) 



British East Africa 



Native Uganda Name, N'sitmt 



The history of this waterbuck's scientific name is rather a curious one, 

 and clearly shows how difficult it is for even scientific naturalists to deter- 

 mine a species, unless sportsmen and field naturalists do their utmost to 

 help them by procuring good specimens of whole skins and other data. 

 For years the missionaries in Uganda had known this beast ; it was 



