436 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



of Nimule. Absent from the low country bordering the 

 Nile and the Victoria Nyanza, where the race bor occurs. 



Herr Neumann described this race from some flat skins 

 which he obtained from the natives in the Kavirondo coun- 

 try, where the race reaches its extreme eastern limits and 

 is not so well marked as in central Uganda. Speke and 

 Grant met with the bushbuck on several occasions in 

 Uganda. Grant described one he shot very carefully and 

 mentions the aversion the natives have for it, owing to their 

 superstitious belief regarding the unwholesomeness of its 

 flesh as food. This belief regarding the poisonous character 

 of the flesh of the bushbuck is quite universal among the 

 natives of British East Africa. 



The Uganda bushbuck approaches the highland race of 

 East Africa most closely in color and size. It is distinguish- 

 able from this race by the much lighter color of the old 

 bucks, which never become seal-brown, but are a light 

 ochraceous-tawny. They are marked more numerously by 

 white spots, a row extending from the forelegs to the hind 

 quarters, where they merge with an irregular assemblage of 

 spots. No transverse white stripes are found in the old 

 males. The body of the female is, however, crossed by 

 from four to six transverse stripes, and she has also well- 

 marked rows of spots on the flanks and hind quarters. The 

 immature male is striped and spotted like the female, but 

 has the blackish breast and belly and the dorsal mane of 

 short hair of the adult male. From the Nile bushbuck this 

 race is at once distinguishable by the absence of both trans- 

 verse or longitudinal stripes in the adult male, and by the 

 much larger body size. It does, however, approach the 

 Nile race in the similarity in body color between the sexes. 

 The line of spots on the flanks marks the position of the white 

 longitudinal stripe in bor. 



No measurements of adult male specimens in the flesh 

 are available. An adult female, however, measured in 

 length of head and body 49 inches; tail, 83/^ inches; hind 

 foot, I33<( inches; ear, 5>^ inches. The skull of an old male 

 has a length of 9^ inches, with a length of horn along the 

 curve of the keel of 143^ inches. 



Specimens have been examined from the Maanja River 

 in central Uganda and the types from Kavirondo. Bush- 



