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(2) Neumann’s Hartebeest (True Bubalis neumanni ).—• 
About 100 miles south of Renk, on White Nile, a “lone bull” 
of this species was shot by the Hon. Gerald Legge, who showed 
me the specimen aboard his gyassa, a second being obtained 
the same season (1914) near Rohr by Lieut. G. P. de R. Monk. 
In both cases the horns corresponded precisely with those of 
the hartebeests discovered by my late friend, Arthur Neumann, 
on Lake Rudolph, but not with those of that local race of 
hartebeest which, a few years ago, we all mistook for true 
“ Neumann’s,” and whose range is restricted to the narrow 
limits between Lakes Elmenteita and Nakuru in Rritish East 
Africa. The latter has now 
been separated — correctly, in 
my view — as Bubaiis nakurce , 
Heller. Retween it and the true 
Neumann’s on Lake Rudolph 
occurs a gap of 300 miles. 
Incidentally (and quite in¬ 
appropriately) I here enter pass¬ 
ing protest against a theory that 
ascribes the said Nakuru harte¬ 
beest to hybridism. In Nature’s 
“Marabou Over.” 
plan hybridism has no place, though hybrids exist in plenty. 
For an object-lesson in hybrids, read SELOUS, African Nature 
Notes and Reminiscences , pp. 35-36. 
(3) Tora Hartebeest ( Bubalis torn). —This is the form 
found in Eastern Sudan—on Atbara, Settite, Rahad, Binder, 
and Rlue Nile—meeting the range of tiang on the head-waters 
of the two last-named rivers'—a sandy-red animal, unicolorous, 
and with rather wide-spread horns that suggest affinity with 
its neighbour, Swayne’s hartebeest further east (in Somaliland), 
and with Neumann’s on the south. Horn measurements as 
given in Cotton’s Eastern Sudan (p. 271), 17 to 18 inches, with 
a similar spread between tips. Weights of four bulls shot on 
Settite River, 313 to 397 lb. 
regarded as of little or no importance. Secondly, that the value of 
the alleged differences themselves are trifling, amounting to no more than 
“ individual variation,” the range of which variation frequently far exceeds 
the meticulous trifles upon which systematists revel in multiplying fantastic 
racial forms. This fact my own small collections suffice to demonstrate. 
