Distribution. Africa south of the Atlas.
Under Cobus, the proper Latin form of Sir Andrew Smith’s term Kobus (taken, no doubt, from the so-called “Kob” Antelope), we follow Flower and Lydekker in uniting the genera Cobus, Adenota, and Hydrotragus of some authors.
The group thus formed contains 11 species which may be arranged in two sections as follows:—
Section I. (Cobus).
Larger in size; fur grizzled; neck maned.
- A. Nape uniform with back; horns lunate, inclined forwards.
- a. With a white rump-band 58. C. ellipsiprymnus.
- b. Without a white rump-band.
- a1. Ears shorter, rounded; eye-region not white.
- a2. General colour rufous 59. C. unctuosus.
- b2. General colour fuliginous.
- Back lighter 60. C. crawshayi.
- Back darker 61. C. penricei.
- b1. Ears longer, pointed; eye-region white 62. C. defassa.
- B. Nape conspicuously white; horns serpentine, inclined backwards. 63. C. maria.
Section II. (Adenota).
Size smaller; fur above uniform rufous; neck not maned.
- A. Back of ears white 64. C. leucotis.
- B. Back of ears rufous.
- a. Horns shorter, not twice the length of the skull.
- a1. Fore legs black in front; hair short.
- Larger; white all round the eye 65. C. thomasi.
- Smaller; white line above the eye 66. C. kob.
- b1. Fore legs uniform rufous; hair long 67. C. vardoni.
- b. Horns longer, more than twice the length of the skull; legs in front black 68. C. lechee.
THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES, PL. XXXII.