ZOOLOGY 
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westward to the vicinity of Angola (where a closely allied form, Cobus 
penricei has been found), is slightly smaller than the common waterbuck. 
The waterbucks of Crawshay and Penrice differ from the common species 
in the following points :—The horns are smaller and less incurved, the rump 
is yellow white instead of being a mere white streak sandwiched between 
two patches of dun colour. Penrice’s waterbuck differs from Crawshay’s very 
slightly if at all. The known specimens, however, are slightly larger and rather 
blacker in colour and the horns are proportionately shorter. The common 
waterbuck is extremely hairy especially about the neck, the female being in my 
opinion even hairier than the male. She bears an extraordinarily superficial 
resemblance to the hind of a large species of deer. These animals have such a 
MALE waterbuck (Cobits eilipsiprymnus) 
strong coarse smell (something like that of a goat) that the natives say they 
can often smell them before they see them. In going through the Elephant 
Marsh with natives they have suddenly commenced sniffing the air and declared 
that waterbuck were near, and they have been usually right. From this cause 
and also because it is coarse and tough in grain, the meat of the waterbuck is 
not at all liked by Europeans, though I have found the flesh of the female and 
of the young ones just tolerable when well cooked. The Puku is not found in 
Nyasaland proper, but it is fairly abundant in the country west of the Nyasa 
watershed from Lake Mweru southwards, and at the south end of Lake 
Tanganyika. This animal is considerably smaller than the common waterbuck. 
It is a bright chestnut yellow in colour and does not assume the grey tint so 
characteristic of the larger waterbucks. Mr. Sharpe states that it is still found 
in enormous herds about the river Luapula and in the vicinity of Lake Mweru. 
As regards its habits, it is fond of entering the water, but not so much as the 
