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AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 
Uganda Kob 
Adenota kob thomasi 
Native Name: Uganda, nsunnu. 
Adenota thomasi Neumann, 1896, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 192. 
Range. —Upper Nile watershed from the headwaters of 
the ’Nzoia River on the flanks of the Uasin Gishu Plateau 
westward through Uganda to the Albert Nyanza, north¬ 
ward along the Elgon highlands west of Lake Rudolf to the 
Soudan boundary at least. 
The Uganda kob has long been known to naturalists, but 
it has only comparatively recently been distinguished from 
the older species from Senegal and the Zambesi River. 
Speke and Grant brought heads from Uganda in 1863. 
These were the earliest specimens to reach Europe, and were 
confounded with the white-eared race by Sclater. Later, in 
1891, F. J. Jackson sent specimens to the British Museum 
from Mount Elgon which were referred first to the Zambesi 
species, vardoni , and later to the typical race, kob , of Senegal. 
Finally, Herr Oscar Neumann distinguished the race in 1896 
and described it under the present name, Adenota thomasi , 
naming it for Oldfield Thomas of the British Museum. 
We found this species in one form or another, common 
from the Uasin Gishu across to the White Nile, and down 
the White Nile to the sud; below the sud its place was 
taken by the white-eared kob. They are rather chunky 
animals, big bucks reaching a weight of nearly two hundred 
and fifty pounds. 
Although close kin to the waterbuck the golden-coated 
kob reminds the observer more of the impalla. Along the 
Uasin Gishu we found the kob in herds of twenty or thirty 
does and young animals, with a single master buck to each 
herd. Their range was much more limited than that of the 
waterbuck in the same region, for they did not go so far 
away from the river, out on the rolling and hilly plains, nor 
