. The book of antelopes . like country of the Benue, and, so far as I can remember, wereexactly similar in habits to Vardons Antelope, as described by horns measure 17^ inches in length along the curve. The femalesof this Antelope had no horns. In 1895 Capt. Lugard during his expedition to Bornu obtained a skin andtwo skulls of this Antelope at Lukoja on the Niger, and presented them tothe British Museum. It was the examination of Capt. Lugards specimensthat first convinced Thomas that the Uganda Kob (subsequently namedCohus tJiomasi) belongs to a different species. The specimens
. The book of antelopes . like country of the Benue, and, so far as I can remember, wereexactly similar in habits to Vardons Antelope, as described by horns measure 17^ inches in length along the curve. The femalesof this Antelope had no horns. In 1895 Capt. Lugard during his expedition to Bornu obtained a skin andtwo skulls of this Antelope at Lukoja on the Niger, and presented them tothe British Museum. It was the examination of Capt. Lugards specimensthat first convinced Thomas that the Uganda Kob (subsequently namedCohus tJiomasi) belongs to a different species. The specimens previously inthe National Collection (a male and female from the Gambia, collected byWhitfield) were both immature, and consequently of little use for accuratecomparison. Our figure of Buffons Kob (Plate XL.) was lithographed for Sir VictorBrooke by Smit from a coloured drawing by Wolf, but we have not beenable to ascertain from what specimen the drawing was originally taken. December, 1896. THE BOOK OP AT^,. W m JSmii del &? lilh COBUS VAKDOl^I FuLlislied byT/^ . Hatuiart irnp. 141 67. THE POKU. COBUS VARDONI (Livingst.).[PLATE XLI.] Antilope vardoni, Livingstone, Miss. Trav. p. 256 (Barotse valley), and pi. p. 71 (1857). Heleotragus vardonii, Kirk, P. Z. S. 1864^ p. 657 (Zambesia). Cobus vardoni, Selous, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 759, pi. Ixv.; id. Hunters Wand. pp. Ill, 147,219, pi. V. (1881) (Cliobe) ; Ward, Horn Meas. (1) p. 92 (1892), (2) p. 129(1896) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 98; id. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 728 (Lake Mweru). Eleotrugus vardoni, Enet, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1887, p. 48; MatscMe, SB. Ges. Berl. 1891, p. 138. Kobus vardoni, Nicolls & Egl. Sportsm. S. Afr. p. 43, pi. viii. fig. 30 (1892). Adenota vardoni, Matschie, Saug. Deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 126 (1895). Vernacular Names :— Pookoo, Poku, or Puku throughout its range; Impookoo ofthe Masubias {Selous); Sawwula of Kinyamwesi [Bohm, fide Matschie). Size and general characters almost exactly as i
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