Swayne’s Hartebeest
BUBALIS SWAYNEI.
Published by R. H. Porter.
4. SWAYNE’S HARTEBEEST.
BUBALIS SWAYNEI, Scl.
[PLATE II.]
Boselaphus caama, Scl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 539; id. in James, Unknown Horn of Afr. p. 262 (1888).
Alcelaphus, sp. inc., Lort Phillips, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 932.
Alcelaphus caama, Gigl. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 19 (1888) (Shoa).
Bubalis swaynei, Scl. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 98, pl. v. (head), pp. 118, 257; Swayne, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 303 (habits and distribution); Ward, Horn Meas. p. 60, fig. (head) (1892); Lyd. Horns and Hoofs, p. 198, fig. 39 (head) (1893).
Vernacular Name:—“Sig” of Somalis (Lort Phillips).
Size medium, height at withers about 47 inches. General colour a peculiar pale chocolate-brown, finely speckled over with white, each hair being brown with the extreme tip white. Face black, except a line across between the eyes to lips and tip of nose, which are fawn-coloured. Chin black. Shoulders and all round forearms black; there is also a black patch inside and a less distinct one outside the thighs. Lower legs and feet fawn, except that the backs of the pasterns are black. Hams paler than back, but not white and not sharply defined. Tail with its hairs reaching just to the hock, black-edged above for its terminal half.