KONGONI OR COKE'S HARTEBEEST 



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KONGONI or COKE'S HARTEBEEST (Bubalis cokei). 



Horn-pcdiclc moderate, horns bracket-shaped, very short and thick. 



Height at shoulder about 45 inches. General colour uniform bright 



fawn, with the lower lip somewhat browner, and the lower part of the 



rump paler ; tail long, with the black tuft ascending some way up the 



hinder surface. 



Distribution. — Eastern Africa, from Usagara northwards to Kiliman- 

 jaro and Masailand. This hartebeest is named after Lieut.-Col. 

 Hon. \V. Coke, by whom it was first killed. A bull shot by 

 Capt. R. A. J. Montgomerie, C.B., R,N., in Masailand weighed 

 3 I 2 lbs. 

 Mr. F. J. Jackson sa)-s : " This hartebeest ranges as far north as 



L. Naivasha, south into German territor}- and east to within a few 



miles of the coast at the back of the Shimba hills." 



Owner. 



lulius leppe. 



[. LkiiiUikt Muir. 



Sir Robert Ilarvcv. Bart. 



Berlin Ma>oum. 



F. J. Jackson. C. B. 



C. W. IIoI.Icv. 



