AIMTDL®PIE K@liu 



Kob Antelope. 



Antilope Kob, Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 102. 



The specimen from which the accompanying figure was taken, was presented to the Society 

 by John Foster, Esq., in 1836, where it lived for about three years. It was of a very savage dispo- 

 sition, having, during its confinement, worn its horns down to within two inches of the skull, by 

 continually striking against the bars and sides of its den. Upon a recent visit to the Right 

 Honourable the Earl of Derby's aviaries, at Knowsley, I saw specimens of a male and a female of a 

 species of Antelope, which I believe to be the same as above; these, together with a female, said by 

 Mr. Ogilby to have been exhibited in the Surrey Zoological Gardens, some ten years since, are the 

 only specimens I have ever seen or heard of. 



Mr. Ogilby considers this Antelope identical with the Kob of Buffon. 



Habitat, River Gambia, Western Africa. 



The general colour of this animal is bright fulvous, deepest on the back ; around the eyes, the 

 insides of the ears, lips, chin and throat, the under surface of the body and tail, the insides of the 

 legs and band round the hoofs, white ; a stripe down the front of each foreleg, intense brown 

 amounting to black ; on the hind fetlocks are marks of the same colour ; the muzzle is naked and 

 black ; the ears and tail are also tipped with black. 



Length of the head and body, four feet four inches : tail, twelve inches : height at the shoulder, 

 nearly three feet. 



