A NEW SABLE ANTELOPE FROM BRITISH EAST 



AFRICA 



By EDMUND HELLER, 

 FiKLD Naturalist, Smithsonian African Expedition 



A Sable Antelope collected by Kermit Roosevelt in the Shimba 

 Hills, British East Africa, represents a form easily distinguishable 

 from Ocaiiiia nigcr. It is here described, this paper being the sixth 

 dealing with the results of the Smithsonian African Expedition. 



OZANNA ROOSEVELTI, new species 



Type from the Shimba Hills, British East Africa, adult female, 

 number 550, E. Heller, collected by Kermit Roosevelt, December 

 14, 1909. 



Coloration. — Snout black medially from the tip to the base of the 

 horns, the black separated from the rhinarium and horn bases by 

 a narrow^ band of reddish brown ; a black stripe enclosing eye and 

 extending from base of horns to the upper lip midway between 

 angle and tip of snout ; hairs covering anteorbital gland creamy 

 white, set off from rest of face by their whiteness and greater 

 length, and merging rather abruptly into the buffy stripe which ex- 

 tends forward to the tip of the snout ; cheeks and throat below 

 the dark ocular stripe whitish ; sides of head and neck posterior 

 to eye, including base and outside of ear, light chestnut like the 

 general body color. Inside and margin of ear conch white, the tip 

 with short, dark brown tufts. Whole dorsal region, including head, 

 posteriorly light chestnut, darkest dorsally becoming slightly lighter 

 on the sides, where it extends well down and is sharply defined 

 against the white underparts. Neck clothed with a well-developed 

 mane, which extends from the ears posteriorly to the middle of the 

 back, the individual hairs black at base and tip, with the median 

 third chestnut brown like the back. Chest and lower throat black, 

 the black extending down front of fore legs as a broad stripe to the 

 hoofs, where it spreads and embraces the pasterns and false hoofs ; 

 posterior part of fore legs colored like the upperparts. Hind legs 

 colored like the upperparts, with the exception of bands above the 

 hoofs embracing pasterns and false hoofs. Tail black, well haired 



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