[Given by Adanson as the native name (among the Joloffs) in Senegal.] An African water antelope of the genus Kobus, represented by several distinct species.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1862), I. 308. The Gazelles, of which there are several kinds…. The fifth he calls the koba, and the sixth the kob.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 79/2. The Kob (A[ntilope] koba, Erxleben) called Petite Vache brune, or little brown cow, by the French settlers on the western coast of Africa, is described as being about the size of the fallow-deer.
1850. Proc. Zool. Soc., 133. It is called Dacoi, or White Mouth, by the Mandingoes, Kob and Koba by the Joliffs.
