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Antilope annulipes, Gray, Ann. & Mag. N. H. x. p. 267 (1842). 
Adenota buffoni, Fitz. SB. Ak. Wien, lix. 1, p. 174 (1869) *. 
Vernacutar Names :—Afquitoon of the Joliffs, and Kob of the Mandingos, at the 
Gambia (Whitfield, fide Gray). 
Similar in general character and markings to C. thomasi, but size much 
smaller, form slenderer, and markings less strongly defined. The black leg- 
markings are present, though not so deeply black as in the last species, and 
are succeeded below by a white ring round the pasterns, separating them 
from the hoofs. Back of pasterns hairy. 
Horns much smaller than in any of the allied forms, only attaining a 
length of about 14-15 inches. 
Female. Similar, but without horns. 
Skull measurements ( 3 ):—Basal length 9°5 inches, greatest breadth 4°45, 
orbit to muzzle 5'9. 
Hab. W. Africa, from the Gambia to the Niger. 
In the twelfth volume of his celebrated ‘ Histoire Naturelle,’ the great 
French naturalist Buffon distinguished two Antelopes from Senegal as the 
“Koba” and the “ Kob.” Of the difficulties experienced by subsequent 
authors in deciding what Buffon’s ‘ Koba ” really was, we have already spoken 
in our article on Damaliscus korriqum (Vol. I. p. 60). But as regards the 
‘‘ Kob ” there can, we think, be no question that Buffon’s “ Kod, ow petit vache 
brune de Sénégal” is clearly the same as that which we now call Codus kod, 
and propose to designate in English “ Buffon’s Kob,” to distinguish it from 
its fellows of the same group. 
Erxleben, in 1777, seems to have been the first writer to Latinize Buffon’s 
vernacular name as “ Antilope kob.” In this he was followed by most of the 
early systematists, who, however, added nothing to our knowledge of the 
animal. Little more, in fact, was known of this Antelope until about 1827, 
when a fresh description of it was published by Hamilton Smith in Griffith’s 
edition of Cuvier’s ‘ Animal Kingdom,’ taken from a pair of animals then 
* The Antilope lervia of Pallas (Spic. Zool. xii. p. 12) has been referred to this species by some 
authors ; but that name is clearly based on Shaw’s Lerwea (‘ Travels in Barbary,’ p. 243), which, 
as Gray has rightly pointed out, is referable to the Barbary Sheep (Ovis tragelaphus). 
