THE KOB ANTELOPES 
T HESE beautiful antelopes, though structurally all nearly related 
one to another, and to the waterbucks, may yet be separated 
by their habits of life into two groups — the long -hoofed, water- 
loving kobs and the shorter -hoofed species which, though they 
are never found anywhere but in the immediate vicinity of 
rivers and swamps, yet prefer to keep out of the water, and, 
indeed, pass most of their time with their feet on dry ground. In the first 
category I would place the lechwis, both the red and black varieties, 
and Mrs Gray’s kob, and in the latter Buffon’s kob, Thomas’s kob, the 
white -eared kob, and the Puku kob. 
