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RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Head of Hunter's Hartebeest. From a specimen shot by H. C. V. Hunter. 



HUNTER'S HARTEBEEST (Damaliscus hunteri). 



With this species we come to a group of antelopes closely allied to 

 the true hartebeests, but in which the frontal region is not elevated 

 into a horn-pedicle, while the horns themselves form in most cases a 

 lyrate or simple curve, and the face is of medium length. In the present 

 species the slender horns are indeed doubly curved, although without 

 the sudden angulation of the true hartebeests. They slant upwards 

 and outwards, then bend downwards, while their long points are 



