The book of antelopes, vol. 2 (of 4)Sclater, Philip Lutley
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The book of antelopes, vol. 2 (of 4)
Sclater, Philip Lutley
Antelopes
“Their colour is a rich rufous, turning to white on the belly and
inside the thighs, the females being somewhat lighter in colour than
the males. Their whole appearance is handsome and well proportioned,
whilst the head makes an exceptionally graceful trophy. I would mention
that the last specimen I procured was a single buck, which I shot in
the vicinity of Berkeley Bay on my return from Uganda in 1893. It
was lying at the edge of a papyrus-swamp, and as it sprang off at my
approach a lucky snap-shot secured for me the finest head I possess of
this Antelope.”
[Illustration: Fig. 34.
Head of _Cobus thomasi_, [♂].
(P. Z. S. 1895, p. 869.)]
This specimen, of which, by the kindness of the Zoological Society, we
are enabled to reproduce the original figure from the ‘Proceedings,’
has recently been presented by Mr. Gedge to the British Museum.
Herr Neumann gives the localities of this Antelope as “Kavirondo,
Ussoga, Uganda, Unyoro, Albert Lake, and, finally, Simiu River, at the
south-east corner of Lake Victoria,” where it was obtained by Herr
Langheld.
_December, 1896._
[Illustration:
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XL.
_Wolf del. J. Smit lith._ _Hanhart imp._
Buffon’s Kob.
COBUS KOB.
_Published by R.H.Porter._]
66. BUFFON’S KOB.
COBUS KOB (ERXL.).
[PLATE XL.]
_Le Kob_, =Buff.= Hist. Nat. xii. pp. 210 & 267, pl. xxxii. fig.
1 (1764) (Senegal); =Ogilby=, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 102.
_Antilope kob_, =Erxl.= Syst. R. A. p. 293 (1777); =Zimm.=
Geogr. Gesch. ii. p. 124 (1780); =Gatt.= Brev. Zool. i. p. 84
(1780); =G. Cuv.= Dict. Sci. Nat. ii. p. 234 (1804); =Desm.= N.
Dict. d’H. N. (2) ii. p. 187 (1816); =Goldf.= Schr. Säug. v.
p. 1240 (1818); =Desm.= Mamm. ii. p. 457 (1822); =Less.= Man.
Mamm. p. 375 (1827); =J. B. Fisch.= Syn. Mamm. p. 463 (1829);
=Laurill.= Dict. Univ. d’H. N. i. p. 617 (1839); =Wagn.= Schr.
Säug. Suppl. iv. p. 435 (1844), v. p. 432 (1855); =Fraser=,
Zool. Typ. pl. xx. (1849); =Temm.= Esq. Zool. Guin. pp. 190 &
199 (1853).
_Cerophorus_ (_Gazella_) _kob_, =Blainv.= Bull. Soc. Philom.
1816, p. 75.
_Adenota kob_, =Gray=, Knowsl. Men. p. 14, pls. xiv. & xv.
(1850); =id.= P. Z. S. 1850, p. 129; =id.= Ann. & Mag. N. H.
(2) viii. p. 211 (1851); =id.= Cat. Ung. B. M. p. 96 (1852);
=Gerrard=, Cat. Bones Mamm. B. M. p. 238 (1862); =Fitz.= SB.
Ak. Wien, lix. 1, p. 174 (1869); =Gray=, Cat. Rum. B. M. p. 17
(1872); =id.= Hand-l. Rum. B. M. p. 87 (1873); =Jent.= Cat.
Ost. Leyd. Mus. (Mus. Pays-Bas, ix.) p. 130 (1887); =id.= Cat.
Mamm. Leyd. Mus. (op. cit. xi.) p. 159 (1892); =Matschie=, MT.
deutsch. Schutz-geb. vi. p 17 (1893) (Togoland).
_Cobus kob_, =Lyd.= Field, lxxvii. p. 980 (1891); =id.= Horns
and Hoofs, p. 224 (1893); =Scl.= P. Z. S. 1895, p. 688; =Ward=,
Horn Meas. (2) p. 127 (1896).
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