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diverging in a regular (J -shaped curve, with little backward 

 inclination of tips. Colour uniform pale rufous or yellowish 

 fawn, with no dark markings on face or limbs, but a pair of 

 indistinct greyish patches on muzzle ; no whitish on lower 

 part of rump ; only terminal tuft of tail black. Approximate 

 basal length of skull 13 inches ; maximum breadth 4| inches. 

 Good horns may measure from 13^ to 15 inches along front 

 curve, the maximum recorded length being 15^ inches. 



Information is lacking with regard to the distribution of 

 this apparently rare species in North Africa. It has been 

 stated by Tristram that this hartebeest, which has long since 

 been extinct in Egypt, exists in Syria and Arabia, and in 

 support of this statement the authors of the Book of Antelopes 

 refer to a pair of horns obtained by Tristram from the Arabs 

 of Syria " apparently referable to a female of this species." 

 The present writer has, however, been unable to find any 

 other testimony that this, or any other, hartebeest inhabits 

 south-western Asia. 



641, a. Skin, mounted. North Africa. 



Presented hy the Zoological Society, 1855. 



98. 6. 16. 1. Head, mounted.- North Africa. 



Presented hy the Dtike of Bedford, K.G., 1898. 



59. 2. 10. 1. Skin and skeleton, female. North Africa. 

 Presented hy the Zoologiccd Society, 1857. 



641, e. Horns. North Africa. No histwy. 



46. 10. 30. 153. Skin young, mounted. Tunis. 



Purchased, 1846. 



II. BUBALIS MAJOE. 



Boselaphus major, Blyih, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 52. 



Bubalis major, Ward, Becords of Big Game,* p. 62, 1892, ed. 6, p. 121, 

 1910 ; MatscMe, Mitth. deutsch. Schutngebiet, vol. vi, pt. 3, p. 17, 

 1893 ; Lydehher, Horns and Hoofs, p. 196, 1893, Oreat and Small 

 Oa7ne of Africa, p. 134, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 96, 

 1908; Sclater and Thomas, Booh of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 11, 1894; 

 Arnold, Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 135, 1899 ; 

 de Winton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. iv, p. 358, 1899; 

 Jentink, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xxiii, p. 18, 1901 ; Alexander, 

 From Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 390, 1907. 



* This name like others in the sequel given as dating from Ward's 

 book were first used in the Field by the present writer in articles 

 subsequently republished in Horns and Hoofs. 



