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animal they are tipped with black as in the adult Pookoo. In the flooded 
grassy plains in the neighbourhood of Linyanti on the Chobe, this beautiful 
Antelope may be seen in almost countless numbers, and I have counted as 
many as fifty-two rams consorting together. Some of these were quite 
young, with horns only a few inches in length; but there was not a single 
ewe amongst them. The longest pair of Leegwee horns that I have ever 
seen measured 2 feet 3 inches in length; but it is rare to get them over 
2 feet long measured along the curve. In common with the Pookoo, they 
appear to me to be more tenacious of life than other Antelopes.” 
As will be observed by what is said- above, Mr. Selous has traced the 
Lechee beyond the Zambesi nearly as far north as Lake Bangweolo. Hence 
it extends into the basin of Lake Mweru, where Consul Sharpe met with it 
in company with Codus vardoni. Specimens obtained 
by Mr. Sharpe in this district were forwarded by Sir Harry Johnston to 
Sclater, and are now in the British Museum. 
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in “ enormous herds 
We have, however, no evidence at present of the occurrence of the 
Lechee anywhere further north than the Mweru district. The specimens 
obtained by Petherick on the White Nile and assigned to Cobus lechee by 
Gray are, as already mentioned, properly referable to C. lewcotis. 
Our figure of this Antelope has been drawn by Smit from a sketch 
made by Wolf, and taken, we believe, from the original typical specimen 
now in the British Museum. 
December, 1896. 
