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Bubalis tora, Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 59, 1892, ed. 6, p. 123, 

 1910; Lijdehher, Horns and Hoofs, p. 198, 1893, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 133, 1899, Gajuc Animals of Africa, p. 100, 

 1908 ; Sclater and TJiomas, Booh of Antelopes, vol. i, p. 15, 1894 ; 

 Bothschild, Powell -Cotton's Sporting Trip throuqh Abyssinia, 

 p. 461, 1902. if J ' 



TOEA. 



T}-pical locality Abyssinia, to which country, together 

 with the lower part of the Blue Nile basiu, this species 

 appears to be restricted. 



Fig. 1. — Skull and Horns op Tora Haetebeest {Bubalis tora). 



Size, typically, much the same as in the preceding species ; 

 the shoulder-height ranging, it is stated, from 4 to 4i feet. 

 Horns, which surmount a pedicle of medium height, in the 

 form of a wide inverted bracket, and very slender ; general 

 colour ranging from pale fulvous, with or without a 

 distinct dirty white rump-patch to deep rufous ; tail-tuft 

 black. ^ 



