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the Hand, is waterless for three months, from January to March. Much of it is 
bush-covered wilderness, or open semi-desert, but some of the higher plains are, at 
the proper season, in early season, covered as far as the eye can reach with a 
beautiful carpet of green grass, 
like English pasture - land. At 
this time of the year pools of 
water may be found, as the 
rainfall is abundant. This kind 
of open grass - country is called 
the Ban. Not a bush is to be 
seen, and some of these plains 
are thirty or forty miles in extent 
each way. There is not always 
much game to be got in the Hand, 
but a year ago, coming on to 
ground which had not been 
visited by Europeans, I found one 
of these plains covered with herds 
of hartebeests, there being perhaps 
a dozen herds in sight at one time, 
each herd containing three or four 
hundred individuals. Hundreds 
of bulls were scattered singly on 
the outskirts, and in the spaces 
between the herds, glazing, fight- head op swayne’s hartebeest.— After Rowland Ward, 
ing, or lying down. The scene I 
describe was at a distance of over a hundred miles from Berbera, and the game 
has probably been driven far beyond that point by now.” 
Cooke’s hartebeest is of a reddish brown colour on the upper-parts and greyish 
brown beneath, the head being dark rufous in front and fulvous on the sides, and 
thus very different from that of the sig. The horns are also shorter and less widely 
expanded than in the latter. On the other hand, the tora antelope has the whole 
face of a uniform pale isabelline tint, like that of the body; the horns being fully 
as long as in the sig, but rising much more rapidly from the base, then coming- 
farther forwards, and projecting much more in the backward direction. Tora horns 
vary from 12 to 194 inches in length. 
The konzi ( B. lichtensteini ) is a very distinct species, inhabiting 
all the Zambesi region and Nyasaland, characterised by its small 
horns, which are much expanded and flattened at their bases. These horns incline 
Konzi. 
at first upwards and outwards, and then inwards, with their tips directed backwards 
and upwards, so as to enclose a kind of vase-shaped space, their length ranging 
from 14 to 20 inches. The skull is also shorter than in any of the foregoing species. 
The general colour is a little lighter than that of the hartebeest; the tail, knees, and 
the front of the legs being black, while the face is without any dark markings, but 
the buttocks usually have a pale yellow patch, and the under-parts are likewise 
yellowish. In Nyasaland this species, according to Mr. Crawshay, is very generally 
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