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As we have already stated, both Heuglin and Baker confounded the Tora 
with the Bubal. In 1873 the British Museum first received specimens of 
this Antelope from the Bogos district west of Massowa. The keen eye of 
the then keeper of the Zoological Department quickly recognized the essential 
differences of the new species from the previously known members of the 
Head of Bubalis tora. 
(P. Z.8. 1873, p. 762.) 
genus, and it was briefly described, first in ‘ Nature’ and afterwards in the 
‘ Annals of Natural History.’ 
In December of the same year Sclater exhibited a mounted head of this 
Antelope at one of the meetings of the Zoological Society, from whose 
‘Proceedings’ the accompanying figure of the specimen in question (fig. 2) 
has been borrowed by leave of the Publication Committee. 
