THE KORRIGUM, TIANG & TOPI 
ANTELOPES 
DAMAIISCUS CORRIGUM, D. C. TIANG, and D. C. JIMELA 
LTHOUGH the korrigum antelope ( Damaliscus corrigum) of 
West Africa, the tiang ( D . c. tiang) of Sennaar, Kordofan 
/ and the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and the topi (D. c. jitnela) of 
/ ' East Africa have each been accorded specific rank, they 
/ may certainly be regarded from the sportsman’s point of 
j^view as merely geographical races of one species, whose 
mode of life and habits are the same in every part of its range. 
The korrigum, tiang and topi are large antelopes of a general reddish 
or purplish brown colour, with a black blaze down the face, and dark 
patches on the upper part of the forelegs, hips and thighs, which extend to 
the inner sides of the limbs, above the knees and hocks. In the western 
race the general body colour is redder than in its congeners of Central 
and Eastern Africa. The tail tuft is always black. These antelopes are 
sturdily built, and in height stand from forty-eight to fifty inches at the 
shoulder. The heavily ridged and slightly lyrate horns stand straight up 
from the head, first curving backwards and then forwards. These appen- 
dages appear to attain their maximum size in the korrigum of Senegambia 
and West Africa, where horns measuring over twenty-six inches in length 
appear to be not uncommon, and one specimen from Northern Nigeria is 
said to measure twenty-eight and a half inches. In the topi of East Africa 
the longest -known specimen only measures twenty-two and a half inches, 
and the average length is certainly not more than seventeen or eighteen 
inches. In the tiang of Kordofan and the Bahr-el-Ghazal the horns are, on 
the average, some inches longer than in the topi, though not quite so long 
as in the West African korrigum. The record tiang horns are those of a 
specimen shot by Major C. J. Hawker in Kordofan, which measure twenty- 
five and seven-eighths inches in length. In the Bahr-el-Ghazal province, 
however, twenty-two inches is a very good length for tiang horns. 
In all the races of the korrigum, tiang or topi, both the males and the 
females carry horns, the only difference between them being that in the 
latter case they are slighter than in the former. 
The typical topi ( D . c. jimela) which inhabits the coast region of British 
East Africa between the Juba and Sabaki Rivers is the smallest of all the 
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