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and the front of the lower part of all four limbs black. Lower part of rump 
white or pale yellowish, contrasting markedly with the dark rufous of its 
upper surface. No anteorbital tuft present. Hairs of face reversed upwards 
from muzzle to horns, except on a median patch, about four inches long, 
between the eyes, where they slant downwards. 
Skull with but little frontal elongation, the elevation bearing the horns 
much broader and shorter than in the majority of the true Hartebeests; on 
the other hand, the muzzle is unusually lengthened, so that the total facial 
length is about equal to that of B. caama. Basal length 14:7 inches, 
greatest breadth 7:2, muzzle to orbit 11:5, length of face 17, breadth of 
forehead 6:1. 
Horns comparatively short and thick, curved first outwards, then upwards 
and inwards, and finally abruptly bent backwards, their terminal portions 
nearly or quite parallel with each other, and comparatively close together. 
The largest horns are just 20 inches in length. 
Hab. East Africa, north of the Sabi River, throughout Nyasaland and 
Mozambique to Usagara, opposite Zanzibar. 
The late Dr. Wilhelm Peters, a distinguished zoologist, who explored 
different parts of the Portuguese territory of Mozambique from 1842 to 1848, 
was the discoverer of this Antelope, which he named after Lichtenstein, his 
not less celebrated predecessor in the keepership of the Royal Museum of 
Berlin, and a former well-known authority on this group of mammals. Peters 
gives as its locality the provinces of Tette, Sena, and Boror, from the 16th to 
the 18th degree of south latitude; and Sir John Kirk, in his notes on the 
‘Mammals of Zambesi,’ published in 1864, says that “it is very common 
during the dry season in the forest of Shupanga and in Inhamunha, in small 
herds.” South of the Zambesi Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest appears to extend 
as far as the Pungue and Sabi Rivers. Messrs. Nicholls and Eglinton tell 
us that it is plentiful on the eastern course of the Sabi; and Mr, Buckley 
met with it in the rough grassy plains of the Upper Pungue Valley, in 
herds sometimes of considerable size. Mr. Buckley always observed these 
Antelopes on the open veldt, and found that they kept clear of the more 
hilly and timbered country. 
‘The great hunter, Mr. F. C. Selous, met with this Antelope only on the 
open downs of the Manica plateau, north of the Zambesi, where it is called 
