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See OR A: 
BUBALIS TORA (Gray). 
Boselaphus bubalis, Heugl. Ant. u. Buff. N.O.-Afr. (N. Act. Leopold. Carol. xxx. 
pt. 11.) p. 21 (1863) (nec Pall.). 
Tétel (Antilope bubalis), Baker, Nile Tributaries, p. 179 (1867). 
Alcelaphus tora, Gray, Nature, vili. p. 364; id. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xi. p. 341 
(1873); id. Hand-l. Rum. p. 172, pl. xli. (skull and horns) (1873) ; Sel. P. Z. S. 
1873, pp. 729 and 762 (Settite R.), 1875, p. 529; Rutimeyer, Rind. Tert.-Epoch. 
p. 47, pl. v. figs. 7 & 8 (1877) ; Jent. Cat. Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, 1x.) 
p- 139 (1887) ; Lyd. Field, Ixxvii. p. 858 (1891) ; Jent. Cat. Mamm. Leyd. Mus. 
(op. cit. xi.) p. 171 (1892). 
Acronotus bubalis, Heugl. Reise N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 122 (1877). 
Bubalis bubalis, Brehm, Thierl. iii. p. 217, pl. (animal) (1880). 
Bubalis tora, Ward, Horn Meas. p. 59, fig. (head) (1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, 
p- 198 (1893). 
Vernacutar Names:—Tora in Ambhar, Abyssinia; Tori in Tigre; Guragua or 
Quaraqua in Belen; Tétel of Arabs in Sennaar (Heuglin). 
Size large, height at withers about 48 inches; hairs of face directed as in 
B. buselaphus. Colour uniform pale fulvous, decidedly paler than in other 
species, and, with the exception of the usual black chin and tail-tuft, entirely 
without black markings. Lower part of rump behind decidedly lighter than 
the dorsal surface. 
Skull slenderer and more lightly built than usual; frontal narrow; its 
elongation medium. 
Basal length 15-7 inches, greatest breadth 5:3, muzzle to orbit 12°, facial 
length 16:5, breadth of forehead 3:4. 
