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UNGULATES. 
Herota. 
met with in the hills, if not too steep and rocky, and in the plains, but it appears to 
prefer a flat or undulating country, well-wooded and with intervening open glades. 
It is frequently found feeding with water-buck or zebras, and generally goes in 
small herds of from five or six to fifteen or twenty. Its vitality appears to be 
nearly equal to that of the water-buck. 
Perhaps the handsomest representative of the genus is the herota, 
or Hunter’s hartebeest ( B . hunteri )—from the southern borders of 
Somaliland, on the great river Tana—which is readily distinguished by the white 
chevron on the forehead, and the peculiar 
form of the long horns. This fine antelope 
stands about 4 feet at the withers, and is of 
a uniform chestnut - brown colour, with a 
rather long white tail, and white under-parts. 
The chevron on the forehead has its angle 
directed upwards, and terminates in rings 
surrounding the eyes. The horns, after in¬ 
clining upwards and outwards for a short 
distance, run vertically upwards for a much 
greater length, with long smooth tips. Their 
length is about 22 inches in the males. The 
face is still of considerable length, but the 
hind-quarters do not slope away in the same 
manner as in the true hartebeest. This 
antelope is found on the plains and in thick 
bush on the Tana River. Mr. Hunter says 
that his party first met with this antelope 
about one hundred and fifty miles up the 
Tana River. “ It is only found for certain 
on the north bank of the river. It frequents 
the grassy plains principally, but is also 
found in thick bush. It is generally met 
with in herds of from fifteen to twenty-five 
individuals. At the time of year when I 
came across them (October and November) 
I saw several young ones in the herds. The 
banks of the Tana River are fringed with a 
thin belt of forest; then the ground rises 
slightly, and one sees extensive plains, dotted 
here and there with large patches of bush, 
composed principally of euphorbias and aloes. 
The lesser kudu (see p. 274) lives principally 
in these patches, and feeds outside of them 
in the early mornings and evenings. When I first saw the new antelope I was 
stalking two examples of Waller’s gazelle, and though I saw the Hunter’s antelope 
in the distance I mistook them for impalas, which, however, are not found on the 
Tana on either bank. It was only when I fired at the gazelles and the Hunter’s 
HEAD OF HUNTER’S HARTEBEEST. 
(From Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1890.) 
