. The game animals of Africa . Fig. 33.—Neumanns Hartebeest, head of female and skull and horns of male. distance back from the lake-shore, where the ground rises gently indry gravelly ridges covered with more or less scattered scrubby to my being laid up during most of the time that I was in theneighbourhood of the locality where I saw this antelope, and the areabeing so circumscribed and not easily accessible to me while weak, Iwas unable to study the species as much as I should have liked, and 1considered myself lucky to obtain the specimens I brought home, forthose I saw were by
. The game animals of Africa . Fig. 33.—Neumanns Hartebeest, head of female and skull and horns of male. distance back from the lake-shore, where the ground rises gently indry gravelly ridges covered with more or less scattered scrubby to my being laid up during most of the time that I was in theneighbourhood of the locality where I saw this antelope, and the areabeing so circumscribed and not easily accessible to me while weak, Iwas unable to study the species as much as I should have liked, and 1considered myself lucky to obtain the specimens I brought home, forthose I saw were by no means easy to get near. This is the only true hartebeest found in the region where I metwith it. With the exception of the topi, which belongs to a differentgenus, there is no other hartebeest within several hundred miles. The KONZI OR LICHTENSTEINS HARTEBEEST 11 r nearest point, so far as I know, where a congener occurs is at thewestern base of the Lorogi Mountains, where Jacksons hartebeest hasthe extreme limit of its
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