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COBUS DEFASSA (Ripp.). 
[PLATE XXXVI.] 
Antilope defassa, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. p. 9, pl. iii. (1835-40) ; Reichenb. Séugeth. iii. 
p- 133 (part.) ; Wagn. Schreb. Saugeth. iv. p. 423 (1844). 
Redunca defassa, Riipp. Verz. Senck. Mus., Saugeth. p. 182 (1842). 
Cervicapra defassa, Sund. Pecora, K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1844, p. 195 (1846) ; id. 
Hornschuch’s Transl., Arch. Skand. Beitr. ii. p. 147 (1848). 
Kobus defassa, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (1) xviii. p. 232 (1846) ; Heugl. Ant. u. Buff. 
p- 15 (1863) ; id. Reise, i. p. 109 (1877) ; Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. pt.1, p. 176 
(1869) ; Matschie, Sitz. Ges. nat. Fr. 1892, p. 134. 
Kobus defassus, Jackson, in Badm. Libr., Big Game Shooting, pp. 285, 304; Jent. Cat. 
Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. de P.-B. ix.) p. 130. 
Cobus defassus, Flow. & Lyd. Mamm. p. 140; Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 224 (1893) 
(partim). 
Cobus defassa, Matschie, Saugeth. Ost-Afr. p. 124 (1895) ; Scl. P.Z.S. 1898, p. 727; 
id. P.Z.S. 1895, p. 868 (Lake Stephanie). 
Kolus sing-sing, Gray, List Mamm. B. M. p. 159 (1843) (partim). 
Kobus sing-sing, Gray, Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 99 (1852); id. Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 15 
(1872); id. Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 87 (1873); id. Knowsl. Men. p. 15 (1850) 
(partim). 
Kobus singsing (?), Scl. P. Z.S. 1864, p. 101 (Uganda, Speke). 
Ant. defassa, var. abyssinica, Wagn. Schreb. Saug. v. p. 435 (1855). 
Vernacutar Names :—Defassa (Amharic) of the Abyssinians ; Om hetehet (Arabic), 
converted by Baker into Mehedéhet; Bura or Chora in Kordofan; Kuru and 
Nsumma in Uganda. 
Size large, about 46 to 50 inches in height at the withers. Above rufous 
brown, hairs at base greyish white ; belly and inner side of limbs white ; rump 
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