98 
1891, p. 326, 1892, p. 471, 1893, p. 505, pl. xxxix. (female from life and 
young), et p. 727; Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 340 (1891); Lyd. Field, Ixxvii. 
p. 980 (1891) ; id. Horns and Hoofs, p. 223 (1893) ; Ward, Horn Meas. p. 86 
(1892) ; Thomas, P. Z.S. 1893, p. 504; Bryden, Gun and Camera, p. 504 (18938) ; 
Barkley, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 131; Swayne, P. Z.S. 1894, p. 8316 (Somaliland) ; id. 
Somaliland, p. 307 ; Matschie, Thierw. Ost-Afr. Saugeth. p. 123, fig. (animal) 
(1895). 
Cobus, sp. inc., Scl. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 118 (Somaliland). 
Vernacutar Names :—Waterbuck of the English at the Cape and elsewhere ; Kringaat 
or Waterbok of the Dutch; Tumoga of the Bechuanas ; Sidumuga of the Aman- 
debele ; He-tumaha of the Makalakas ; He-kulo of the Masubias ; Umkulamdumbo 
of the Makubas; Mukulo of the Batongas; Gwelung-gwelee of the Masaras 
(according to Selous) ; Nakodzwi or Nyakodzwi of the Ajawa and of the Anyanja; 
Ipiwa of the Angoni; Chuzu of the Achewa, Atonga, Atembuka, Ahenga, and 
Anyika; and Lipuwa of the Ankonde in Nyasaland (Crawshay) ; Kulu, Kuru, 
or Kuro of the Swahilis (Neumann); Balanka of the Adone Negroes; Balango 
of the Somalis (Swayne). 
Height about 39 inches ; length of body 43 inches. Fur long and coarse, 
on back blackish, hairs whitish at the base ; paler on the flanks, and passing 
into white on the middle line of the belly and on the inner sides of the hind 
limbs. A conspicuous white line across the rump reaches down to the 
inside of the flanks on both sides. Feet dark brown, with a white line round 
the hoofs and across the upper edge of the false hoofs, which are distinct. 
Sides of face and forehead dark brown, nose black; muffle moist, naked, 
black ; line round the nose, lips, and chin, and line over the eye extending in 
front of eye, white. Irregular line round the neck greyish white. Lars 
hairy, inside white, outside black, brownish at the base, about 74 inches 
long. ‘Tail dark brown, beneath white, about 11 inches long, hair beyond 
4 inches. 
Horns large and strong, lengthened, sublyrate, inclined backwards and 
then forwards at the tips; strongly ringed in front for three-fourths from 
their bases. 
Female similar, but hornless; teats 4. 
Hab. South Africa, from the Limpopo northwards, and along the coast 
through Nyasaland to German and British Kast Africa and to the Shebeyli 
River in Somaliland. 
