40 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Damalisous korrigum, Sclater and Thomas, Book of Antelopes, vol. i, 

 p. 59, pi. vii, 1895 ; Matschie, Sdugeth. Deutsch-Ostafrica, p. Ill, 

 1895. 



Damalisous corrigum, Lydehher. Great and Small Game of Africa, 

 p. 166, 1899, Game Animals of Africa, p. 116, 1908 ; Bendall, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 169, 1899; Alexander, 

 From Niger to Nile, vol. ii, p. 391, 1907 ; Cabrera, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1910, p. 998; Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 139, 

 1910. 

 If this species be the true Ant Hope lioba of Erxleben, its proper 



title would be Damaliscus koba, unless the name A. hoba be regarded 



as too like A. hob to be admissable. 



Korrigum, or Tiang. 



Typical locality Bornu. 



Size large ; shoulder-heisfht from about 4 feet to 4 feet 

 2 inches. General colour some shade of rich rufous, usually 

 with a black blaze on the face, blue-black patches on the 

 shoulders, hips, and thighs, which form garters on the limbs 

 above the knees and hocks, a black tail-crest, no dark dorsal 

 stripe, and the lower part of the limbs coloured more or less 

 nearly like the body. Tail barely reaching hocks, with crest 

 occupying terminal third. Horns thick, heavily ridged, and 

 sublyrate in form, rising abruptly upwards and then curving 

 backwards, with a regular and medium divergence ; the 

 extreme tips showing a tendency to recurve upwards. Good 

 horns of the typical race measure from 24 to 28i^ inches 

 along the front curve, with a girth of from 9 to lOf, and a 

 tip-to-tip interval of from 4j to 14 inches. 



The local races may be provisionally characterised as 

 follows : — 



A. Faoe-blaze black. 



a. A dark eye-streak. 



a'. Lower part of legs apparently coloured 



like body D. k. korrigum. 



v. Lower part of legs tan; area round eye 



rufous; nose black D. k. tiang. 



c'. Area round eye and nose tan D. k. selousi. 



b. No dark eye-streak. 



a'. Colourbrownish; limb-markings absent (?) D. k.jonesi. 

 b . Colour bright purplish rufous ; limb- 

 markings strongly developed D. k. jimela. 



B. Face-blaze whitish buff or white D.k. phallus. 



