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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 
Next morning while at breakfast on the breezy deck 
we spied another herd of the saddle-marked lechwe, in 
the marsh alongside; and Kermit landed and killed one, 
after deep wading, up to his chin in some places, and much 
hard work in the rank grass. This buck was interesting 
when compared with the two I had shot. He was appar¬ 
ently a little older than either, but not aged; on the con¬ 
trary, in his prime, and fat. He had the white saddle-like 
mark on the withers, and the white back of the neck, well 
developed. Yet he was smaller than either of mine, and 
the horns much smaller; indeed they were seven inches 
shorter than my longest ones. It looks as if, in some ani¬ 
mals at least, the full size of body and horns were reached 
before the white saddle markings are acquired. The horns 
of these saddle-mark lechwes are, relatively to the body, 
far longer and finer than in other species of the genus; just 
as is the case with the big East African gazelle when com¬ 
pared with other gazelles. 
That afternoon, near the mouth of the Rohr, which 
runs into the Bahr el Ghazal, I landed and shot a good 
buck, of the Vaughn’s kob; which is perhaps merely a 
subspecies of the white-eared kob. It is a handsome ani¬ 
mal, handsomer than its close kinsman, the common or 
Uganda kob; although much less so than its associate, the 
saddle-marked lechwe. Its hooves are dike those of the or¬ 
dinary kobs and waterbucks, not in the least like those 
of the saddleback; so that, although the does are colored 
alike, there is no chance of mistaking any lechwe doe for 
any true kob doe. We found these kobs in much drier 
ground than the saddlebacks, and therefore they were 
easier to get at. The one I shot was an old ram, accom- 
