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OetiE POKU. 
COBUS VARDONTI (Livivest.). 
[PLATE XLI.] 
Antilope vardont, Livingstone, Miss. Trav. p. 256 (Barotse valley), and pl. p. 71 (1857). 
Heleotragus vardonii, Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 657 (Zambesia). 
Cobus vardoni, Selous, P. Z.S.1881, p. 759, pl. lxv.; id. Hunter’s Wand. pp. 111, 147, 
219, pl. v. (1881) (Chobe); Ward, Horn Meas. (1) p. 92 (1892), (2) p. 129 
(1896) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 98; id. P. Z.S. 1898, p. 728 (Lake Mweru). 
Eleotrogus vardoni, Huet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 48; Matschie, SB. Ges. nat. 
Fr. Berl. 1891, p. 138. 
Kobus vardoni, Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 43, pl. viii. fig. 830 (1892). 
Adenota vardoni, Matschie, Saug. Deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 126 (1895). 
Vernacutar Names :— Pookoo, Poku, or Puku throughout its range; Impookoo of 
the Masubias (Selous) ; Sawwula of Kinyamwesi (Béhm, fide Matschie). 
Size and general characters almost exactly as in C. thomasi, but the legs 
entirely without any trace of the black markings so conspicuous in 
C. kob and C. lechee. eight at withers of an adult male 354 inches, female 
the same. Back of ears fulvous, their extreme tips edged with black. 
Pasterns hairy, scarcely any trace of a white ring above hoofs. 
Horns thick and strongly curved, having a length of about 17 or 18 inches. 
* Female. Similar, but hornless. 
Skull measurements ( ¢ ):—Basal length 11 inches, greatest breadth 4°47, 
muzzle to orbit 7°25.., 
Hab. Valleys of Chobe and Zambesi, and northwards through the Barotse 
country to Lake Mweru. 
