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mee Omes HARTEBERST. 
BUBALIS COKEI (Gtnrt#). 
[PLATE IIL. 
Antilope (Alcelaphus) caama, Peters, Von der Decken’s Reise, iii. pt. i. p. 9 (1869) 
(Lake Jipe). 
Alcelaphus cokei, Gimth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) xiv. p. 426, woodcut of horns (1884) 
(Usagara); Thomson, Masailand, p. 220, fig. (horns) (1885); Johnston, Kilima- 
njaro, p. 65 (1886); Hunter, Willoughby’s E. Africa, p. 288, pl. i. fig. 1 (head) 
(1889); Von Hohnel, Zum Rudolph-See, p. 819 (1892) (Lake Jipe); Lugard, 
E. Afr. i. p. 532, pl. (animal), and pl. p. 448 (horns) (1893). 
Alcelaphus lichtensteini, Pageust. JB. Mus. Hamb. ii. 1884, p. 40 (1885) (Masailand). 
Alcelaphus cookei, Lyd. Field, Ixxvii. p. 858, fig. (horns) (1891). 
Bubalis cokei, Ward, Horn Meas. p. 61, fig. (head) (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, 
p. 197, fig. 38 (horns) (1893); Jackson, Big Game Shooting, i. pp. 285, 291. 
VernacuLtar Name :—Kongoni in Swahili (Lugard). 
Size small, height at withers about 45 inches. General colour bright fawn 
all over, without dark markings, except that the lower lip is rather browner 
than the rest. Lower part of rump paler than the back, but not sharply 
defined. ‘Tail long, its hairs reaching to the middle of the lower leg; black- 
crested for about its terminal three fourths. Face-hairs as in B. swaynei and 
&. tora. Glandular suborbital brushes short and not conspicuous. 
Skull of medium proportions. Measurements:—basal length 14 inches, 
greatest breadth 5:2, muzzle to orbit 10°7, facial length 14:7, breadth of 
forehead 3:5. 
Horns short and thick, bracket-shaped, the middle portions of the two sides 
in exactly the same straight line; their tips as long as their middle portions. 
Hab. Eastern Africa, from Usagara northwards to Kilimanjaro and Masai- 
land. 
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