. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . d the face-glands aresmall. In the present species the slender horns are indeed doublycurved, although without the sudden angulation of the true slant upwards and outwards, and then bend downwards, afterwhich the long points are directed upwards. Colour uniform rufous,.with a chevron on the face, the inner surface of the ears, and thetail-tuft white. Height at shoulders about 48 inches; build lightand graceful. Distribution.—Southern Somaliland to north bank of
. Records of big game : with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements . d the face-glands aresmall. In the present species the slender horns are indeed doublycurved, although without the sudden angulation of the true slant upwards and outwards, and then bend downwards, afterwhich the long points are directed upwards. Colour uniform rufous,.with a chevron on the face, the inner surface of the ears, and thetail-tuft white. Height at shoulders about 48 inches; build lightand graceful. Distribution.—Southern Somaliland to north bank of Tana River. 138 RECORDS OF BIG GAME Len ?th. On frontcurve. Straight. Circum-ference. Tip. Locality Owner. -26i 22i 84 124 Jubaland E. G. Harrison. 26g 8i I4i Do. British Museum. 26i 22 8i I2i Tana Valley, E. Africa Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 24I 8* i5i Do. H. C. V. Hunter. 245 21^ 8i 9l Do. Sir Robert Harvey, Bart. 9 2ii 19^ 51 II Jubaland E. G. Harrison 20| 5i 85 Tana Valley, E. Africa Hon. Walter Rothschild. ? 19 51 loi Do. C. S. Mann. Owners measurements. KORRIGUM, TIANG, OR TOPI 139. Mead of Korrigum. KORRIGUM, TIANG, or TOPI (Damaliscus corrigum). Kot^rigum, Bornow. Derri, Hausa. Horns with a single slightly lyrate curve. Size large. Generalcolour reddish with a blackish blaze on the face and usually similarpatches on the upper part of the fore-limbs, hips, and thighs, whichextend in the form of a garter on the inside of the limbs above theknees and hocks. Tail-tuft black. ^.—TYPICAL KORRIGUM or SENEGAL HARTEBEEST(D. corrigum typicus). In this race the black markings are strongly pronounced, and astreak is given off from the face-blaze to run upwards and outwardsbelow the eye. The lower parts of the legs appear to be coloured likethe body. Distribution.—Senegambia and the interior of West Africa. Locality. Owner N. Nigeria . C. F. Watson. Senegambia . Imperial Museum, Vienna. Lake Chad . Major D. F. MacCarthy Morrogh. Gambia . . W. B. Stanley.
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