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with bristly beard and a loose bushy mane on neck, and 
generally shaggy pelage—the reverse of that in the 
smooth-coated cobs. But more conspicuous than any of 
these points, as seen from a distance, comes the singular 
horizontal carriage of head and neck, poked forward 
so as to bring the long curving sweep of its splendid 
horns lying close along the line of its back; in fact, 
the lower curve of the horn is often lost to view against 
the sable quarters. I cannot call to mind ever seeing the 
lechwi hold its head and neck upright, as all cob and 
waterbuck habitually do. No field-naturalist could con¬ 
ceivably mistake a lechwi for a waterbuck—as systematists 
Hoofs of Situtunga. 
Hoofs of Cob—Situtunga—Lechwi. 
have blindly done for two generations—nor confuse it 
with the cobs either. For those who have eyes to see 
and to discriminate, the three animals obviously belong 
to three totally distinct genera. 
As seen afar on the marshy plain, saddle-back rams 
show up absolutely black; no suspicion of other colour 
occurs, save only the snow-white saddle. But when the 
prize lies at your feet, then the warmer tones of the 
interior fur, showing up through the dark and shaggy 
exterior, produce an effect of lustrous sable. Sometimes 
one discerns a faint semblance—a mere shadowy indica¬ 
tion—of the paler gorget so characteristic of ariel, addra, 
and Grant’s gazelle, white-eared cob, and other antelopes. 
The females of lechwi are hornless and of a tawny fawn 
colour, not to me distinguishable from those of the cob, 
