102 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
races are largely based on the shape of the horn, and there is appar- 
ently much individual variation in this respect among the northern 
reedbucks. 
REDUNCA BOHOR WARDI (Thomas). 
1900. Cervicapra redunca wardi THomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 6, 
p. 304. September. (Mau Plateau, British East Africa; type in British 
Museum.) 
1910. Cervicapra redunca wardi Hoxutster, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, 
No. 2, p. 6. March 31. 
1910. Redunca redunca wardi Rooseve tt, African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 475; 
London ed., p. 487. 
1914. Redunca redunca wardi Roosevett AND Heuer, Life-Hist. African Game 
Anim., vol. 2, p. 485. 
Specimens.—Twenty-two, from localities as follows: 
Uaanpa: Kabula Muliro, 1 (K. Roosevelt); Katwe, 3 (T. Roose- 
velt). 
British East ArricaA: Amala River, 1 (Rainey); Fort Hall, 1 
skull (Mearns); Guas Ngishu Boma, 5 (T. Roosevelt, Heller); Guas 
Ngishu Plateau, 1 skull (Stephenson); Kabalolot Hill, Sotik, 1 
(Rainey); Kamiti Farm, 1 skull (Heatley); Nzoia River, Guas 
Ngishu Plateau, 2 (White, K. Roosevelt); south of Sirgoit, Guas 
Ngishu Plateau, 2 (T. Roosevelt, K. Roosevelt); Telek River, 2, 
including one odd skull (Rainey, Heller). 
GerMAN Hast Arrica: Ikoma, 1 odd skull (Clark); Nyanza, east 
shore of Lake Tanganyiki, 1 (Raven). 
The common East African bohor reedbuck has a wide distribution. 
Specimens from the Sotik do not appear to differ from those from the 
Guas Ngishu Plateau, Kapiti Plains, or the Kenia region. The horns 
vary but little in the series at hand, though one old male from 
Kapiti Plains and one specimen from the Guas Ngishu Plateau have 
them conspicuously longer and more widely spread than is usual. 
A female collected on the Guas Ngishu Plateau November 2 was 
nursing young. 
Writing of this species on the Guas Ngishu Plateau, Colonel Roose- 
velt says: * 
It was astonishing how close the reedbuck lay. Again and again we put them up 
within a few feet of us from patches of reeds or hollows in the long grass. A much 
more singular habit is the way in which they share these retreats with dangerous wild 
beasts; a trait common also to the cover-loving bushbuck. From one of the patches 
of reeds in which Kermit and I shot two hyenas a reedbuck doe immediately after- 
ward took flight. She had been reposing peacefully during the day within fifty yards 
of several hyenas! Tarlton had more than once found both reedbuck and bushbuck 
in comparatively small patches of cover which also held lions. 
A subspecies of the bohor reedbuck from Ankoli, southwestern 
Uganda, described by Blaine as Cervicapra bohor ugande’* is not 
represented in the collections of the National Museum. 
1 African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p. 339. 1910. 
2 Any. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, pp. 289, 291. March, 1913. 
