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buck from the headwaters of the 'Nzoia River immediately 

 above the Kavirondo country are dark-colored like dela- 

 merei^ old males from this elevated region being quite as 

 dark as any from the Aberdare Mountains. The record 

 horn length of this race recorded by Ward is i83<( inches, 

 based on a specimen shot in Unyoro by F. A. Knowles, the 

 district commissioner. 



Nile Bushbuck 

 Tragelaphus scriptus bor 



Native Names: Djeng, bor; Bongo, tobbo; Dinka, pehr. 

 Tragelaphus bor Heuglin, 1877, Reise, Nord-Ost Africa, II, p. 122. 



Range. — Upper Nile from the Albert Nyanza north to 

 the limit of the bush country in the White Nile region, east 

 to the Nile-Rudolf watershed and west over the Congo 

 watershed to the headwaters of the Congo system. 



Heuglin described the bushbuck of the Bahr-el-Ghazal 

 region in 1877, giving to it the name bor, by which it was 

 known to the Djengs who dwell in the country lying be- 

 tween the mouth of the Sobat and the Bahr el Zeraf. Doctor 

 Schweinfurth also met with it during his travels in the up- 

 per Bahr-el-Ghazal district in 1869. He makes mention of 

 its extreme shyness, solitary habits, and the ease with which 

 it is detected by the eye, owing to its striped coloration. 

 In an appendix to his narrative of his travels he furnishes a 

 long list of names by which the bushbuck is known to the 

 various tribes he encountered. 



The Nile bushbuck is scarcely distinguishable from the 

 typical race from West Africa. The male may be dis- 

 tinguished by the collar on the nape, and the darker throat, 

 but the color pattern is quite the same as in scriptus. The 

 female cannot be distinguished from the typical form. It 

 is quite remarkable that the bushbucks show practically no 

 racial variation from the Nile to Senegal, a distance of three 

 thousand miles, while eastward they break up into several 

 races within an area of less than one thousand miles' width. 

 From delamerei it is distinguishable by its numerous trans- 

 verse stripes, the single longitudinal stripe, and the rufous 

 color of the adult male. It approaches more closely dama 

 in coloration, but is readily distinguishable by the presence 



