. The book of antelopes. Antelopes. 29 went out and shot the animal, upon the head of which the species was after- wards based. After this Colonel Coke was taken so ill that he had to be carried back to the coast in a hammock, and was unable to shoot any more of these Antelopes. In Sir John Kirk's collection are two fine heads of this Hartebeest, likewise obtained by him in Usagara. Proceeding northwards to the country round Kilimanjaro we find that Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, in his appendix to Sir John Willoughby's ' East Africa Fig. 4 Horns of Bubcdis cohei, side view. and its Big Game,' recor
. The book of antelopes. Antelopes. 29 went out and shot the animal, upon the head of which the species was after- wards based. After this Colonel Coke was taken so ill that he had to be carried back to the coast in a hammock, and was unable to shoot any more of these Antelopes. In Sir John Kirk's collection are two fine heads of this Hartebeest, likewise obtained by him in Usagara. Proceeding northwards to the country round Kilimanjaro we find that Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, in his appendix to Sir John Willoughby's ' East Africa Fig. 4 Horns of Bubcdis cohei, side view. and its Big Game,' records Coke's Hartebeest as, at the date of his visit (18S7), "quite the most common Antelope in the plains" of that district, " being found everywhere in immense ; From the same part of the British East-African Company's territory we have seen and examined numerous other heads of this Hartebeest, including fine examples of both sexes belonging to Consul-General Holmwood, obtained during a shooting-excursion from Zanzibar to this attractive district. Mr. Ernest Gedge, who traversed British East Africa in company with Mr. E. J. Jackson, has kindly compiled from his note-books the following account of his experiences with Coke's Hartebeest:— " These Antelopes range over a very wide extent of country in both British. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, ill; Williams, Alpheus F. , former owner. DSI; National Zoological Park (U. S. ), former owner. DSI; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI. London : R. H. Porter
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