Crossword-Solution: DEFASSA 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There are two kinds of waterbuck that the East African hunter will find in the course of his travels, the common waterbuck which we saw in such numbers on the Tana River, and the Defassa, or "sing-sing" waterbuck, which is found in the higher altitudes up toward the Mau escarpment and Mount Elgon.

THE DEFASSA WATERBUCK (_Cobus defassa_) To one of the handsomest of the larger South African antelopes the old Dutch colonists gave the name of wasserbok, the equivalent of the English waterbuck, on account of its partiality for the neighbourhood of water, although it has subsequently been discovered that several more or less nearly allied species are equally aquatic in their habits.

This is the defassa or sing-sing waterbuck--for it has different native names in different parts of its range--the _Cobus defassa_ of naturalists, and the subject of the accompanying coloured Plate.