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plain round being dotted with single bulls. Their coats are glossy, like that 
of a well-groomed horse. 
“From their living so much in open grass plains the Hartebeests must 
subsist entirely on grass, for there is nothing else to eat; and they must be 
able to exist for several days without water. 
‘“‘ Hartebeests are the favourite food of Lions, and once, when out with my 
brother, I found a troop of three Lions sitting out on the open plains, ten 
miles from the nearest bush. ‘They had evidently been out all night among 
the herds, and on their becoming gorged, the rising sun had found them 
disinclined to move. 
Fig. 3. 
Skull of Bubalis swaynet. 
(P. Z. S. 1892, p. 99.) 
“ Hartebeest horns vary greatly in shape and size. There are short 
massive horns and long pointed ones, and all the gradations between. Some 
