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UNGULATES. 
placed by Jackson’s hartebeest {B. jacksoni), distinguished by the uniform pale 
colour of the face; the hair being reversed for a distance of only about 4 inches 
above the muzzle. The horns are of about the same dimensions as those of the 
hartebeest; in the typical specimen their length being 20f inches along the front 
curves, with a basal girth of 12 inches; but in a second example the length was 
23| inches. 
Writing of the common hartebeest, Mr. Drummond states that it 
is one of the fastest antelopes in Africa, and possesses such strength 
as to render it almost impossible for 
anything under a whole pack of 
strong and swift hounds to bring it 
to bay. “ It is common in the great 
level grass-plains to the north-west 
of Zululand, and on several occasions 
I tried coursing them there with two 
very fast crossed Amaponda grey¬ 
hounds ; but although the latter 
could run up to them when they had 
a fair start, they never once suc¬ 
ceeded in bringing one to bay, or 
even in causing one to separate from 
the herd.” In such districts it appears 
that the only way to obtain a suc¬ 
cessful shot is for the hunter to 
conceal himself in a ravine, and 
have the antelope driven in his 
direction. 
Cooke’s Cooke’s hartebeest ( B. cookei), of British and German East Africa, 
Hartebeest. brings us to a group of three species, readily distinguished from all 
the preceding forms by the wide expansion of their horns, as shown in the figure 
of the skull. The other two members of this group are the tora antelope (B. tora), 
of Upper Nubia and Abyssinia, which is represented on the left side of our illustra¬ 
tion on p. 317; and Swayne’s hartebeest ( B. sivaynei), of Somaliland, of which the 
head is shown in the accompanying woodcut and the skull on p. 159. In all these 
species the hair of the face is reversed only for a distance of 2 inches or less above 
the muzzle. In Swayne’s hartebeest—the sig of the Somalis—the general colour is 
reddish chestnut, the face being marked by a broad purplish streak extending from a 
little distance below the eyes. The horns expand very widely, rising at first nearly 
in the plane of the face, and then forming a right angle with the middle line of the 
forehead; their smooth tips being bent at right angles to the base, and directed 
immediately backwards. Their length varies from 15 to 18j inches. In regard to 
the habitat of this species, Captain Swayne writes, that to the “ south of the 
highest ranges of Somaliland, and at a distance of about one hundred miles from 
the coast, are open plains, some four thousand or five thousand feet above sea-level, 
alternating with broken ground covered with thorn-jungle, with an undergrowth 
of aloes growing sometimes to a height of six feet. This elevated country, called 
UPPER PART OF SKULL AND HORNS OF COOKE’S 
hartebeest. (From Gunther.) 
