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is brown, without a definite collar, being short-haired to the 

 white bar on the lower throat, where the long olive hair of 

 the body begins abruptly. The upper throat has a large 

 median white spot. The snout is without white chevrons. 

 The crown of the head and the snout are olive-brown and 

 the sides of the head are ochraceous-tawny. The cheeks be- 

 low the eye are marked by two large white spots. The upper 

 lips, chin, and forethoat are white. The back of the ears is 

 olive-brown and the tips are seal-brown, while the inside and 

 the base are whitish. The adult female has the sides of the 

 body bright ochraceous-tawny, with the median area much 

 darker cinnamon-brown, through the centre of which ex- 

 tends a thin white dorsal stripe from the withers to the tail. 

 The sides of the body are marked with six or seven transverse 

 white stripes, the anterior ones being the longest. The 

 lower sides are marked by a line of white spots and the 

 hind quarters with about a dozen similar spots irregularly 

 arranged. The breast is buffy and lighter than the sides; 

 the belly is white. The legs are bright-tawny with the white 

 areas arranged as in the male. The tail shows much more 

 white below than that of the male, only the median dorsal 

 line being cinnamon like the body color. The collar on the 

 neck is more distinctly marked than in the male. The 

 crown of the head is bright-rufous, the snout dorsally olive- 

 brown with narrow white chevrons from the eye to the snout, 

 and the rest of the head is colored as in the male. 



An adult male buck measured in the flesh: 44 inches in 

 length of head and body ; tail, 8 inches ; hind foot, I4>< inches ; 

 ear, 5^ inches; length of skull, 9 inches. The horns of 

 the type measure in length 12 inches on the curve of the 

 keel. The specimen in the British Museum from Lamu has 

 much greater horns, their length on the curve being i6f^ 

 inches. The female is somewhat smaller than the male. 



Uganda Bushbuck 

 Tragelaphus scriptus dama 



Native Names: Kavirondo, ngao; Luganda, engabi. 



Tragelaphus dama Neumann, 1902, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Nat. Freunde, Bed., p. 97. 



Range. — From the Kavirondo country on the northeast 

 coast of the Victoria Nyanza westward throughout Uganda 

 and northward through the highlands as far as the latitude 



