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Identifier: recordsofbiggame1914ward
Title: Records of big game with their distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Ngamiland . Hon. C. Legge. 16| 8i io| N.E. Rhodesia ]. Turner. i6§ 71 i3l Do. . F. H. Melland. 164 7i 14 Do. . R. Hayne. 16| 6S i3i Ngamiland . A. G. Stigand. i6| 74 I2i N.E. Rhodesia EI. Cookson. 16i 71 IO-5 Do. . Capt. S. Id. Christy. i6J 71 ioi S. Rhodesia . . C. W. Adams. i6i 7i 114 N.E. Rhodesia Hon. W. Guinness. 16 71 111 ? A. Hugh Bainbridge. 16 71 I2| Chinama, B.C.A. . Hon. Walter Rothschild. 9 16 6i I4l N.E. Rhodesia . Col. A. Colville. 1 si 71 1 Si Mashonaland . . Sir John Willoughby, Bart. 15I 74 11 N.E. Rhodesia . F. H. Melland. 15I 71 US S. Africa . Sir Edmund G. Loder, Bart. 15* 8 n| N.E. Rhodesia . A. de L. Long. 1 si 8i IOrj; ? W. A. Simpson Hinchliffe. i5i 8 13 N.E. Rhodesia P. K. Glazebrook. i.5i Mashonaland . . F. C. Selous. 1 si 7 14s ? F. T. Garbutt. *5i 84 I3l ? W. F. Wailes-Fairbairn. 1 Si 8 I2j S.E. Africa . British Museum (Sir Andrew Smit 1 si 7k III Rhodesia . N. H. Barton. 174 Hi OWNERS MEASUREMENTS. N.E. Rhodesia . . J. C. Phillips. ISO RECORDS OF BIG GAME
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Frontlet and Horns of Brindled Gnu. From specimen in the British Museum,presented by the late Mr. Rowland Ward. The BRINDLED GNU or BLUE WILDEBEEST (Connochsetes taurinus). Ee-vumba, Makalaka.Ikokoni, Basuto.Inkoni-koni, Amandebili.Inkongoni, Swazi and Zulu.Kokong, Barotsi and Batoka. Minyumbzvi, Batonga. Munyumbzva, Chila. Numbo, Masubia. Nyamba, Chilala and Chisenga. Unzozo, Makuba. From their near relatives the hartebeests the gnus, or wildebeests,are distinguishable at a glance by their grotesque shape and smoothhorns, as they also are by their habits. The long, broad, and massivehead has a blunt and bristly muzzle, and tufts of coarse hair on theforehead and chin ; the chin-tuft also extending on to the throat.The horns, which are placed on the crown of the head, are approxi-mated at their bases, especially in old bulls, and are nearly smooth,more or less flattened at the bases, but almost cylindrical at the tips ;the curvature being at first outwards, or outwards and downwards,a
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