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of the late Mr. Sharland at Tours. These two animals, we have been 
informed, were imported together from West Africa. 
From Senegal and the Gambia the Kob extends through the interior of 
West Africa to Togoland, where it has been obtained by the German 
collectors inland from Bismarckburg and far into the Niger territory. As 
regards the latter locality, Sclater has examined a pair of horns of the Kob 
obtained by Capt. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman at Ibi, on the Benué, in the 
autumn of 1889, when he was travelling with Major Claude Macdonald’s 
expedition up that river; and Capt. Mockler-Ferryman has kindly supplied 
us with the following note on them:—‘ The Antelopes, from a male of 
which this pair of horns were taken, were fairly plentiful everywhere in the 
open park-like country of the Benué, and, so far as I can remember, were 
exactly similar in habits to Vardon’s Antelope, as described by Selous. 
These horns measure 174 inches in length along the curve. The females 
of this Antelope had no horns.” 
In 1895 Capt. Lugard during his expedition to Bornu obtained a skin and 
two skulls of this Antelope at Lukoja on the Niger, and presented them to 
the British Museum. It was the examination of Capt. Lugard’s specimens 
that first convinced Thomas that the Uganda Kob (subsequently named 
Cobus thomas?) belongs to a different species. The specimens previously in 
the National Collection (a male and female from the Gambia, collected by 
Whitfield) were both immature, and consequently of little use for accurate 
comparison. 
Our figure of Buffon’s Kob (Plate XL.) was lithographed for Sir Victor 
Brooke by Smit from a coloured drawing by Wolf, but we have. not been 
able to ascertain from what specimen the drawing was originally taken. 
December, 1896. 
