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which it is closely associated geographically. Differences in 

 coloration in bushbucks are a meridian affair with but slight 

 latitudinal change. 



The flesh measurements of an adult male are: head and 

 body along curve of back, 53 inches; tail, 8 inches; hind foot, 

 14^ inches; ear, ^H inches. The female is somewhat 

 smaller in size and measures in length, 50 inches; tail, 7^ 

 inches; hind foot, 14 inches; ear, 5>? inches. The skull of a 

 large male measures io>^ inches in greatest length. An 

 adult female skull usually measures 83^ inches. The long- 

 est horns in six males are 16 inches, measured on the curve 

 of the keel. Average horns are somewhat less than the head 

 in length and are approximately 10 inches long. Ward's 

 record for this race is 18^ inches. 



Masai Bushbuck 



Tragelaphus scriptus massaicus 



Native Names: Kinyamwesi, pongo; Masai, el mungu. 

 Tragelaphus massaicus Neumann, 1902, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Nat. Freunde, Berl., 

 p. 96. 



The Masai bushbuck was described by Herr Oscar Neu- 

 mann from a specimen shot near Irangi, German East 

 Africa, in the Rift Valley south of Mount Kilimanjaro. 

 From the slopes of Mount Meru situated southwest of Kili- 

 manjaro and some distance north of Irangi, Lonnberg later 

 described a race, meruensis, which is quite indistinguishable. 

 His male specimens were more fully adult and showed 

 darker coloration than the immature one described by Neu- 

 mann, which accounts for the differences he discovered. The 

 absence of the white chevrons given as a character is of no 

 racial value, owing to the great individual variation in con- 

 stancy to which they are subject. 



The Masai bushbuck may be distinguished from dela- 

 merei by its lighter body color in the male, and by the 

 presence of three or four transverse white body stripes, and 

 by the greater number of white spots on the hind quarters, 

 which are present in both sexes. 



