442 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



slides over the treacherous mud, or swims where the water 

 is deep. We found the sitatunga hving in papyrus where the 

 water was waist-deep on a man. The stomach of the one 

 Kermit shot was filled, not with grass, but with the leaves 

 and twig tops of a shrub which grew in and alongside of the 

 swamps. 



The Uganda sitatunga is readily distinguishable from the 

 Zambesi species, selousi, by the marked sexual difference in 

 color, the female being rufous and the male drab-brown. 

 In selousi both sexes are drab-brown. The males of the two 

 species are distinguishable by the more spotted and striped 

 character of the coat in the Uganda sitatunga, which has 

 faint indications on the body of the white stripes and spots 

 of the female. From the Congo sitatunga there are only 

 slight racial differences, the two forms being closely related 

 by the similarity of the coloration of the females, which are 

 rufous, with indications of transverse white stripes on the 

 body. The male of the Congo race is much more distinctly 

 banded and spotted on the sides of the body than is the case 

 with spekei, although both are alike in the general drab- 

 brown tone of coloration. 



The coloration of the male is uniform drab-brown with 

 the median dorsal line marked by a whitish stripe. There is 

 a white bar in front of the chest and a white spot on the fore- 

 throat. The sides of the body are marked by three or four 

 faint indications of white transverse stripes which reach only 

 half-way down the sides. There are a few white hairs on 

 the lower sides indicating the lower lateral line of spots in 

 bushbucks, and the hind quarters are marked by several 

 distinct spots. The breast is drab-brown, like the dorsal 

 surface, and the belly whitish, the white extending down the 

 inside of the hind leg to the hoof, where it merges with the 

 white spots in front of the pastern; rest of leg drab-brown, 

 like the body color. The foreleg is white at the axilla, the 

 white area continuing down the inside of the leg to the pas- 

 tern, as in the hind leg. The tail is tufted at the tip, the hair 

 at the base being shorter and less abundant, and is colored 

 above drab-brown, the under side being marked by a nar- 



