BUFFON’S KOB 
in habits in every way to the white-eared kob of the Bahr-el-Ghazal and 
the puku of the Ghobi River. They were often in large herds, amongst 
which there were several adult males — this not being the rutting season 
— and they were always near the river, usually in the grassy flats on 
either side of the river’s course, but sometimes in the open bush beyond 
the grass plains. When disturbed, they usually ran off parallel with the 
course of the river through the grass-covered plains. This grass was five 
or six feet in height and in the morning saturated with dew. The ground 
was, however, hard and dry, and the shortness of the hoof in Buffon’s 
kob compared with that of the lechwi or Mrs Gray’s kob, is, I think, good 
evidence that these animals, although they pass their lives like the puku 
and the white -eared kob in the near vicinity of rivers, lakes and swamps, 
do not habitually or, indeed, very often stand in wet ground. Where I met 
with the Uganda kob, there were a great many large antheaps scattered 
over the grass lands frequented by these antelopes, and on these they 
were constantly to be seen grazing, or drying themselves in the sun in 
the early mornings, after passing through the dew -laden grass. 
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