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Another surprise awaited. Not far from Lake No, 
but amongst the dense forests which clothe the south 
bank (the proper right), we found a woodland cob in 
great numbers and excessively tame, allowing us to walk 
past within 60 or 80 yards—on occasion, even less. 
These were practically all tawny, paler than any hitherto 
seen, and devoid of the conspicuously white facial 
markings. They carried, moreover, finer horns—some 
scarcely inferior to those of many a saddleback. Indeed, 
with their uniform foxy pelts and splendid cornual 
equipment, these buck rather recalled visions of impala 
than any white-eared cob I had ever seen. 
Could I have been certain that these antelopes belonged 
to another species, I would have been entitled to shoot six 
more — and thus set the question at rest. By some 
inconceivable oversight, we had on board Candace no 
single book of reference on the subject of antelopes, and I 
dared not trust to memory alone. As already confessed, 
I had by pure mischance overshot my limit in saddle-back 
lechwi, and, with that on my mind, declined all risk of 
even a technical infraction of the game-ordinance. Thus 
the problem remained for solution in another year; or 
rather, as the date was only February, we thought to 
solve it in the succeeding November. How little we 
then foresaw! ... It remains unsolved still. Possibly 
these were “ Uganda cobs ” out of bounds. 
The white-eared cob one associates almost exclusively 
with wide grass-prairies, devoid of bush or covert. Here 
these undetermined cobs were equally at home amidst 
relatively dense forest, associated with waterbuck, bush- 
buck, and tiang, and close neighbours of buffalo. 
From the above it is at least clear that a dark or black 
coat in Adenota leucotis is no exclusive index of maturity. 
The darker individuals are unquestionably adults and 
probably aged. This is shown by their horn - measure¬ 
ments. But on an average the big tawny-coloured males 
