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a) 1 buck from the Merit steppe, ", a 19(l(i. 



This is the only adult buck of Tragelaphns in the collection. It agrees in 

 general perhaps best with the coloured plate of Tragelaphns sylvaticns (!) in the Book 

 af Antelopes* although it has a darker and more reddish tint on the body and less 

 white on the legs and in the crest. A striking resemblance to the Cape Bushbuck 

 is the absence of stripes on the body and, perhaps still more important, the absence 

 of a white spot in front of the eye, although the two whitish spots are present on 

 the cheek. The general colour is dark reddish brown on the back and hind quarters, 

 passing into dark smoky brown on the shoulders and sides of the breast; below dark 

 smoky brownish grey with a white patch at the bases of the legs on their inner side. 

 The crest of the back not strongly developed, with the long hairs 3'ellowish white. 

 Forelegs with a blackish brown stripe in front, buffish on the inner side shading to 

 white below, brown on the outer side. A white spot above the hoofs surrounded by 

 blackish brown. Hindlegs smoky brown at the base below the hams, a white or 

 ^yellowish white stripe on the inner side. A short blackish brown stripe at the lower 

 end of the cannon bone just above the white patch above the hoofs, otherwise the 

 hind legs are rufous brown. Tail rufous above, white below. Hairs of the neck worn 

 off. Face rufous, blackish brown on top of the nose. 



b) 1 quite young buck still without horns (and with the first molar not yet cut) 

 caught between Kilimandjaro and Mem * a 1906 is very dark above. It is even 

 darker on the back than the old buck is below and may be termed smoky chestnut 

 brown. The flanks from the chest to the hams as well as the lower parts are bright 

 rufous. There is one very faintly developed transversal white stripe, and behind this 

 one about seven small white spots on the hindquarters but each such spot is formed 

 by quite a small number of hairs. A few of the hairs along the mesial line of the 

 back are white-tipped, foreboding a white crest in the mature age. Feet and head 

 coloured as in the adult buck. This young buck has not the hairs on the base of 

 the neck shorter than elsewhere, but this is no doubt due to its youth. 



c) 1 female Bushbuck from the mixed forest at Kibonoto, Kilimandjaro ai \i 

 1905. This is the darkest of the females and is not yet fullgrown. Its back is 

 chestnut, still darker anteriorly above the shoulders. The flanks and hams are bright 

 rufous, the lower parts buffish white. On the right side three transversal stripes 

 may be traced by scattered white hairs, but on the left only two. A number of 

 white spots form a longitudinal series (corresponding to a lower longitudinal stripe), 

 and in addition to this about half a dozen white spots are scattered over the hind- 

 quarters. The neck is dark greyish brown with very short hair, especially at the 

 base. The forehead is dark rufous or chestnut with a dark spot on the nose, the 

 sides of the head are paler rufous with two white spots on the cheeks but none in 

 front of the eye. 



d) The specimen next in colour is a fullgrown female from the mixed forest at 

 Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto " ia 1905. When killed it was gravid. 1 It is not quite so 



1 It looks on the skin as if the specimen should have had ti teuN! 



Sjiiatetltt Ktlimandjaro- Merit Expedition 2. 



