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Title: The game animals of Africa
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting Big game animals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
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acity of life, so that it sometimes appears quite impossible tokill them, as they seem able to stand being riddled through andthrough. I have, for instance, tracked one with four bullets in itsbody, and going on three legs, for hours, catching sight of it everynow and then, until sheer exhaustion has compelled me to give upall hope of putting an end to its misery ; and the same animal wasseen for weeks afterwards by natives and other persons shooting overthe same ground, but no one could ever bring it to bay, in spite ofits dragging a useless hind-leg. The flesh of the West African hartebeest is somewhat coarse,and of a flavour decidedly too strong for European palates, exceptin default of other meat. In life the animal has also a strong odour,which cannot be mistaken, and invariably stamps a resting-place forseveral hours after the herd has left. This fine species is represented only by the skull and horns in theexhibition galleries of the Natural History branch of the BritishMuseum.
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1. Bubal Hartebeest. 2. Western Hartebeest. 3. Tora Hartebeest. ILATE I\- 4. Neumanns Hartebeest. 5. Swaynes Hartebeest. 6. Cokes Hartebeest. 99 7. Cape Hartebeest. 8. Lehvel Hartebeest. 9. Lichtensteins Hartebeest. ANTELOPES THE TORA HARTEBEEST (Bubalis tonx) Titel, Arabic ; Tora or Woroba, Abyssinian ; Tori, Tigre (Plate iv, fig. 3) With this species we come to a group in which the horn-pedicleis of medium height, while the horns themselves spread outwards inthe form of an inverted bracket (—,—), In height the tora standsfrom about 48 to 54 inches at the withers; while in colour it is paleyellowish tawny, with the chin and tail-tuft black. The weight rangesfrom 300 to 400 lb. ; and the record horn-length is 22^ inches. This hartebeest was first mentioned by the Austrian naturalistHeuglin in 1863, by whom, however, it was confounded with thebubal ; and it was not recognised as a distinct species till 1873, whenit was named by Dr. Gray. In the Book of Antelopes (Sclater andThomas)

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