430 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



Key to Adult Males of the Races of scriptus 



Neck without a collar of short hair 



No stripes or bands on body meneliki 



Sides marked by two longitudinal stripes decula 



Neck with a collar of short hair 

 No stripes or bands on body 



Body color dark, chestnut or seal-brown 



Hind quarters marked with two or three white spots 



delamerei 



Hind quarters with many white spots massaicus 



Body color light, ochraceous or tawny 



Dorsal mane white dama 



Dorsal mane black 



Collar of short hair well marked multicolor 



Collar of short hair indistinct nigrinotatus 



Body color olive-gray, without reddish suffusion olivaceus 



Body crossed by transverse bands and one longitudinal stripe 



bar 



Highland Bushbuck 



Tragelaphus scriptus delamerei 



Native Names: Kikuyu, szvalika; Kikamba, ndwayia. 

 Tragelaphus delamerei Pocock, 1900, Ann. i^ Mag. Nat. Hist., p. 95. 



Range. — From the highlands south and east of Lake 

 Rudolf southward through the highlands of British East 

 Africa to the southern coast of the Victoria Nyanza. 



The bushbuck named for Lord Delamere by Pocock, in 

 1900, was assigned to Sayer, Somahland, erroneously, and 

 has remained unrecognizable, partly owing to this confusion 

 of locahty, and partly to the immaturity and faded condi- 

 tion of the type specimen. Sayer is, however, in British 

 East Africa. It is situated at the southern edge of the Lo- 

 rogi Mountains, on the northeastern limits of the Laikipia 

 Plateau, at an altitude of four thousand four hundred feet, 

 and is on one of the old trade routes to Mount Marsabit 

 and Lake Rudolf. A few years later Thomas described the 



