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ee ONES HARTEBEEST. 
BES AS eS SW AY Ni Scr: 
[PLATE II] 
Boselaphus caama, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1884, p. 539; id. in James, Unknown Horn of Afr. 
p- 262 (1888). 
Alcelaphus, sp. inc., Lort Phillips, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 932. 
Alcelaphus caama, Gigl. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 19 (1888) (Shoa). 
Bubalis swaynei, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1892, p. 98, pl. v. (bead), pp. 118, 257; Swayne, P. Z.S. 
1892, p. 303 (habits and distribution); Ward, Horn Meas. p. 60, fig. (head) 
(1892) ; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 198, fig. 39 (head) (1893). 
Vernacutar Name :—“ Sig” of Somalis (Lort Phillips). 
Size medium, height at withers about 47 inches. General colour a peculiar 
pale chocolate-brown, finely speckled over with white, each hair being brown 
with the extreme tip white. Face black, except a line across between the 
eyes to lips and tip of nose, which are fawn-coloured. Chin black. Shoulders 
and all round forearms black; there is also a black patch inside and a less 
distinct one outside the thighs. Lower legs and feet fawn, except that the 
backs of the pasterns are black. Hams paler than back, but not white and 
not sharply defined. Tail with its hairs reaching just to the hock, black- 
edged above for its terminal half. 
Hairs of face reversed upwards for only about 14 inch on the tip of the 
muzzle, then directed downwards from a whorl just below the bases of the 
horns. Glandular suborbital brushes prominent. 
Skull of medium proportions; its measurements as follows :—basal length 
14°5 inches, greatest breadth 5:5, muzzle to orbit 8-3, facial length 14, breadth 
of forehead 3°5. 
Horns bracket-shaped, the median portion of each in nearly the same 
