BUSHBUCKS, KOODOOS, AND ELANDS 431 



adult male of the same race as haywoodi from a specimen 

 taken at Nyeri, which is situated almost within the same 

 watershed, but one hundred miles south of Sayer. Still 

 more recently a specimen from Nakuru has been made the 

 type of a new race, tjaderi, by Doctor J. A. Allen. 



The highland bushbuck is distinguishable by the dark 

 seal-brown color of the old male, and the almost total ab- 

 sence of white markings on the sides. The hind quarters 

 usually show two or three spots, but occasionally they are 

 absolutely wanting. The adult female is tawny rufous. 



The color of an old male is uniform raw umber-brown 

 on the dorsal surface, but lighter on the rump, where there 

 is some mixture with tawny hairs, and darker on the sides and 

 breast, where the color becomes blackish seal-brown. The 

 midline of the back is marked with a mane of long, white- 

 tipped hair. On the sides are a faint indication of two 

 transverse white stripes and two or three white spots on the 

 flanks also. The tail is bushy; the dorsal surface and sides 

 are rufous like the rump, the under-surface white, and the 

 tip black. The legs are deep seal-brown like the belly, but 

 are white on the inside of the axillae and at the groins. The 

 inside of the forelegs from knees to pasterns and a similar 

 stripe on hind legs from the hocks are tawny-ochraceous. 

 The front of the pasterns is marked with a pair of large 

 white spots. The neck is encircled by a well-marked collar of 

 short hair at the base, which is bone-brown in color. The 

 fore part of the neck is tawny with a short, black mane on 

 the nape. There is a white bar at the base of the throat and 

 a rectangular one on the forethroat. The crown and fore- 

 head are bright-rufous, the snout umber-brown on top, and 

 the sides of the face ochraceous-tawny. Below the eye on 

 the cheek are two rounded white spots. The lips, chin, and 

 upper throat are white. The ears are ochraceous-tawny on 

 the back, with umber-brown tips and white inside. 



Immature males at an age when the horns are two or 

 three inches long are like the adult females in color, but the 

 collar at the base of the neck is darker and the indications 

 of transverse stripes more pronounced. Males with horns 

 half grown are less reddish than the females and quite uni- 

 form wood-brown in color. The old adult female has the 

 body bright russet on the midline of the back, and grades 



