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oo PEIOMASS KOB: 
COBUS THOMASI, Nevmann. 
[PLATE XXXIX.] 
Kobus leucotis, Sel. P. Z.S. 1864, p. 103 (mec auctt.) (Uganda, Speke). 
Kobus kob, Ward, Horn Meas. p. 91 (1892) ; Lugard, E. Africa,i. p. 538 (1893) (Buddu 
and Kayirondo) ; Jackson, Big Game Shooting, i. p. 296 (1894); Scott Elliot, 
P.Z.S. 1895, p. 341 (Albert-Edward Lake). 
Adenota kob, Matschie, Saug. Deutsch Ost-Afr. p. 126 (1895). 
Adenota koba, Matschie, op. cit. p. 147 (1895). 
* Cobus thomasi, Neumann,” Sclater, P. Z.S. 1895, p. 868 (Kavirondo) ; Ward, Horn 
Meas. (2) p. 128 (1896). 
Adenota thomasi, Neumann, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 192. 
Cobus kob, Scott Elliot, P. Z.S. 1895, p. 341 (Lake Albert-Edward). 
VernacuLar Name :—Nsunnu or Nsunu of the Waganda (Speke, Lugard, &c.). 
Size about as in C. leucotis, but form thicker and heavier (height at withers 
of an adult male 353 inches). General colour rich fulvous. Area round eyes 
and another round bases of ears whitish; back of ears fulvous, with an 
indistinct tipping of black; hairs of inner surface of ears white. Muzzle, lips, 
chin, chest, belly, and inner sides of forearms and thighs white. Front of 
fore legs from middle of forearms downwards with a strongly defined black 
line, which broadens at the knees and pasterns; hind legs with a similar 
black mark, but only reaching up from the hoofs halfway towards the hocks. 
Remainder of limbs fulvous, an indistinct whitish ring just above the hoof; 
back of pasterns thickly hairy. 
Horns thick and strongly curved, attaining a length of about 17 or 18 
inches. 
Female similar, but without horns. 
