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and German East Africa. In the latter sphere I have procured specimens 
on the south shore of the Victoria Nyanza which in all respects were 
identical with those found nearer the coast; hence it is reasonable to suppose 
that they occupy the entire region lying between the lake and the coast. 
In British East Africa the northern limit of their extension seems to be 
somewhere about Lake Naivasha in the Masai country. On one occasion, 
however, I obtained an odd specimen in the valley of the Ngare Rongri, to 
the south of Lake Baringo, but, as a rule, they are not to be found so far north, 
as in this district they give place to B. jackson. 
Fig. +c. 
Horns of Bubalis cokei, front view. 
(Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, xiv. p. 426.) 
“Between Lake Naivasha and the coast B. coket is very commonly met 
with. It frequents every kind of locality, and is equally at home in the 
bush-covered wilderness lying behind the coast-line and on the vast treeless 
plains around the base of Kilimanjaro which extend northwards towards 
Lake Naivasha, and during the hottest seasons of the year it is often 
encountered in the most arid and pastureless localities many miles distant 
from the nearest water. . 
“ Being of a sociable disposition, Coke’s Hartebeest is usually seen in 
