104 BULLETIN 99, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Colonel Roosevelt writes of the rock reedbuck on the Kapiti 
Plains: 
On the steep, rocky, brush-clad hills there were little klipspringers and the moun- 
tain reedbuck or Chanler’s reedbuck, a very pretty little creature. Usually we 
found the reedbuck does and their fawns in small parties, and the bucks by them- 
selves; but we saw too few to enable us to tell whether this represented their normal 
habits. They fed on the grass, the hill plants, and the tips of certain of the shrubs, 
and were true mountaineers in their love of the rocks and rough ground, to which 
they fled in frantic haste when alarmed. They were shy and elusive little things, 
but not wary in the sense that some of the larger antelopes are wary. 
Loring found a single well-developed fetus in a female killed May 6 
on the Kapiti Plains. 
An additional subspecies of Redunca fulvorufula has been described 
by Neumann as Cervicapra fulvorufula schoana.2 No specimens 
from the type region, the mountains about Lake Abaya and Gandjule, 
Abyssinia, are available for comparison, but no satisfactory char- 
acters are given in the original description to distinguish the proposed 
race from R. f. chanlert. 
Genus KOBUS Smith. 
1840. Kobus A. Smrra, Ill. Zool. South Africa, pl. 28. October. (K. ellipsi- 
prymnus. ) 
1876. Cobus BucK.ey, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 284. (pro Kobus.) 
Two closely related species of waterbucks are found in Kast Africa, 
each divisible into a number of geographical forms. The subspecies 
of ellipsiprymnus are found in the eastern coast region while the forms 
of defassa are confined to the interior. 
KOBUS ELLIPSIPRYMNUS KURU Heller. 
Plate 42. 
1892. Kobus ellipsiprymnus True, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 15, p. 471. October 
26. (Not Kobus ellipsiprymnus ellipsiprymnus of South Africa.) 
1913. Kobus ellipsiprymnus kuru Hever, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, 
p.6. September 16. (Taveta, Kilimanjaro district, British East Africa; 
type in U.S. National Museum.) 
1914. Kobus ellipsiprymnus kuru Roosevett and Hever, Life-Hist. African 
Game Anim., vol. 2, p. 506. 
Specimens.—Three, as follows: 
Britisu East Arrica: Taveta, 3, including one odd skull (Abbott). 
This waterbuck should be compared with specimens of Kobus 
ellipsiprymnus kulu Matschie,* described from Maliwe, 42 kilometers 
west from Kilwa, on the Matandu River, near the coast of German 
East Africa, which was apparently unknown to Heller at the time 
he named this coast form from British Kast Africa. The localities 
1 African Game Trails, Amer. ed., p.56. 1910. 
2 Sitz.-ber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berlin, p.99. 1902. 
3 Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 5, pt.3, p.561. June [August], 1911. 
