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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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ay of the hind-quarters. The species may be arranged in thefollowing three groups :— A.—Horns doubly curved, at first directed upwards and outwards,then bending slightly downwards, after which their long smooth tipsagain point upwards. Herola, or Hunters Hartebeest. B.—Horns curving regularly backwards or slightly lyre-shaped,with only the short tips recurving upwards. Korrigum, Topi, or Tiang. Bontebok. Blesbok. C.— Horns at first inclined outwards, with a single crescentic curveupwards and backwards. Tsessebe or Sassaby. Standing about 48 inches at the withers, the herola, which rangesfrom southern Somaliland to the north bank of the Tana river, issufficiently distinguished from the other members of the group byits long doubly-curved horns. Its general colour is rufous fawn, muchlike that of Cokes hartebeest, but the forehead has a distinct whitechevron, with the angle directed upwards, and the lower half of thetail is white. The horns are heavily ringed for the first twelve
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PLATE V 1. Hunters Hartebeest. 3. Topi. 5. Blesbok. 2. Korrigum. 4. Bontebok. 6. Tsessebe or Sassaby. 115 7. Pala. 8. Black-faced Pala. ii6 ANTELOPES inches or so, and then smooth. The maximum length of the hornsis 26;- inches, good average specimens running to about 25 inches. According to the account given by the discoverer of the species,Mr. H. C. V. Hunter, these antelopes on the Tana river associate inherds of from ten to twenty head, which frequent open plains and thinthorn-bush, but are never seen in thick scrub or forest. Mr. Huntergives the following account of his first meeting with this species :— I saw two antelope coming towards me, which in the distance 1mistook for impala, a species not found up the Tana, but commonround Kilimanjaro, and it was not until I had fired at one of themand missed that I saw, as they ran away with a heavy gallop like ahartebeest, that they were quite new to me. I set to work to trackthem through the thin bush, and had followed them a long wa

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