. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. es there was a distinct tendency towards lossof hair, just as one observes in buffaloes. Cobus defassa is much redder than the other bigwaterbucks (which all tend towards a grey coat in the male). The forehead of G. defassais almost vermilion-red in some examples. The smaller Cobuses, of which Thomass Kobmay be taken as an example, have a coat of golden-yellow with dark markings on thelimbs and a little white about the face and throat; but a variety of Thomass Kob isoccasionally met with in Uganda with a remarkable mantle of
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. es there was a distinct tendency towards lossof hair, just as one observes in buffaloes. Cobus defassa is much redder than the other bigwaterbucks (which all tend towards a grey coat in the male). The forehead of G. defassais almost vermilion-red in some examples. The smaller Cobuses, of which Thomass Kobmay be taken as an example, have a coat of golden-yellow with dark markings on thelimbs and a little white about the face and throat; but a variety of Thomass Kob isoccasionally met with in Uganda with a remarkable mantle of whitish-grey over theback and hind quarters. The White-eared Kob of the White Nile is a handsomely-paintedanimal, with a short coat of rich blackish-brown, variegated with bold white markingsabout the face, throat, chest, belly, limbs, and feet. Most splendidly marked, however,,of this handsome group, and perhaps one of the most beautiful animals in the world, is * This is iJartioularly the case in Cobus maria, where the tail is remarkably orjx-like in PliotOijraph hij Author. HEAD OF KOB (C. tlwinasi). Wild Beasts and Their Ways 169
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