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vol. xi) p. 152, 1892 ; Matschie, Mitt, deutsch. Schutzgehiete, 

 vol. vi, p. 17, 1893 ; Pojtsargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, 

 vol. iv, p. 58, 1897 ; 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 

 1905, p. 91 ; PococTc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 915 ; Heller, 

 Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ixi, no. 7, p. 11, 1913; BotJischild, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 8, vol. xii, p. 574, 1913. 



Adenota buffoni, Fitzinger, Sitzber. It. Ah. Wiss. Wien, vol. li, pt. 1, 

 p. 174, 1869. 



Adenota annulipes, Pousargues, Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. ser. 7, vol. iv, 

 pp. 53 and 73, 1897. 



Cobus kob, Lydekher, Field, vol. Ixxvii, p. 980, 1891, Horns and 

 Hoofs, p. 224, 1893; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 638; 

 Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 2, p. 197, 1896 ; Sclater and 

 Thomas, Booh of Antelopes, vol. ii, p. 137, pi. xl, 1896 ; Arnold, 

 Great and Small Game of Africa, p. 291, 1899 ; Bothschild , 

 Powell-Cotton' s Sporting Trip through Abyssinia, p. 469, 1902. 



Adenota koba, 0. Neumann, Sitzber. Ges. nat. Freunde, 1905, p. 91. 



Cobiis cob, Lydehher, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 794, Great and Small 

 Game of Africa, p. 269, 1899; Alexander, From Niger to Nile, 

 vol. ii, p. 392, 1907. 



Cobus ooba, Lydehher, Game Animals of Africa, p. 210, 1908 ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 203, 1910. 



Kob. 



Type of Adenota. 



Typical locality Upper Guinea. 



A variable species, ranging in shoulder-height from about 

 34 to 36 inches, and in coloi^r from rich orange fulvous, or 

 foxy red, to dark blackish brown in adult bucks, with more 

 or less white in the region of the eye ; coat short and sleek, 

 reversed on middle of back from loins to neck ; front of 

 fore-legs black, and frequently a white hoof-band ; muzzle, 

 lips, chest, under-parts, and inner sides of upper portions of 

 limbs white. 



The distribution embraces Equatorial Africa from Guinea 

 to Uganda. 



The existence of a more or less complete transition in 

 the matter of colouring from the typical red K. koha to the 

 dark blackish brown K. k. leucotis was pointed out in 1908 by 

 the writer, who did not, however, then propose to class the 

 latter and the intermediate types as local races of the former. 

 Subsequent information has, however, convinced him that 

 this is the proper course to adopt. 



Evidence of such a gradation is afforded by the skulls 

 and head-skins of two kobs from the Bahr-el-Ghazal, 



