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blackish ; forehead dark chestnut red ; hps and chhi white ; eyes 

 encircled with tawny; a broad white face stripe and the two white 

 spots under the eyes greatly enlarged, the U])])er one twice as long 

 as wide; throat blackish to wilhiu eight inches (jf the while crescent 

 on the lower neck. 



No. 155434, complete skin, is of a glossy chestnut bay; neck, 

 chest, and lower sides black ; a distinct black dorsal stripe from 

 neck to rump, the hair forming a short, stiff mane to middle of 

 back; eleven while stri])es on right side, thirteen on left; face black- 

 ish ; upper forehead dark chestnut ; a broad, dark fawn stripe from 

 eye to end of white streak across face ; face streak greatly reduced 

 and (hvided in center by a blackish chestnut stripe; cheek spots large 

 and irregular in shape. 



The mounted specimen in the Museum is of about the same gen- 

 eral color tone as No. 155435, from which it differs in lack of black- 

 ish on the shoulders, neck, and chest, the body being entirely of 

 the bright, glossy hazel color. This specimen has thirteen vertical 

 stripes. 



Thus we have three specimens of the bongo, all from British East 

 Africa, and all differing widely from one another. Not knowing 

 tlie e.xacl localit\' in which each was killed, it is useless to speculate 

 on the meaning of these great differences. It is hard to believe that 

 the great variation I)elween the ])ure hazel-colored specimen and the 

 one with ihe maximum amount of black is explained Ijy individual 

 variation in the same ft)rest. 



TAUROTRAGUS ORYX PATTERSONIANUS Lydekker 



vSkiu of adull male from ihe Ouas Ngishu Plateau. May 17. 



Eland, which were greatly reduced in numbers in parts of I'ritish 

 Enst Africa some years ago by the rinderpest, are slowly gaining 

 in numbers. Several herds of from forty to sixty head were seen 

 on the (luas Ngishu Plateau, and one herd of sixty or more animals 

 was fcnuid in the Laikipia country. 



EQUUS BURCHELLI GRANTI de Winton 



vSkin from the Guas Ngishu Plateau, about June 15. 

 Zebr:is were found in abundance both on the Guas Ngishu and 

 Laikipia ])lateaus. 



