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in front as far down as the knee ; its head is black, a deep black, with a 

 clean white spot both in front and behind the eye, the muzzle being white 

 on both sides, the white just meeting over the nose. The hair is short, 

 excepting the mane, and lies evenly on the skin throughout the body. 

 The mane extends from the crest to the withers, the longest hair, which 

 reaches 5 inches in length, lying close to the crest. This mane is stiff and 

 stands erect. Full measurements of a small bull shot at Lokoya on the 

 Niger are as follows : — 



Height at shoulder . .... 53 inches. 



,, croup 



Length from between horns to root of tail 

 Depth of body at shoulder . 

 Head length from between horns to tip of nose 

 Mane extends from between horns for 

 Length of hair of mane 

 Length of ears 

 Tail, short hair 



„ long „ 



,, total length 

 Fore-foot length 



Hind-foot „ . . . 



Horns, length 



,, circumference at base 

 „ width between tips . 



start out 



The longest horn I have seen measured 31-^ inches. The horns 

 from the head at an angle of about 75 degrees, and curve in a regular arc 

 upwards and backwards. Whilst the curve is roughly that of a segment of 

 a circle with a radius of 2 feet, the angle at which the horns are set in 

 the head prevents them coming down well on to the neck, except when the 

 muzzle is thrown well up into the air. There are no side curves, and the 

 divergence of the horns from each other, from base to tip, is therefore 

 perfectly regular. A section of the horn is slightly elongated in the 

 direction of the body-length, and the horn itself is ringed at a slight angle 



