THE WHITE-EARED COB 
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appreciating- one of Natures loveliest designs must be 
entranced by these bi-diurnal spectacles. 
Six times in all have we passed through this region 
of the “all-tawny race,” admired yet neglected for the 
reasons stated. It was not till we had reached a point 
approximately 400 miles south of Khartoum that we first 
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White-eared Cob ([Adenota leucotis ). 
landed/to select some typical specimens of the white-, 
eared "cob. 
Already as a dim grey light heralded the approach of 
day, three separate herds became discernible, moving 
like shadows among tall reed-beds that fringed the river¬ 
side. A charming pageant of African wild-life succeeded 
the dawn—troop beyond troop of lovely forms (water- 
buck, tiang, and cob) strode by, slowly grazing inland; 
exactly as for thousands of generations before they had 
grazed across this same veld when no cordite rifle lurked 
on their path* No suspicion of such modern development 
