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row line of white. The head is drab-brown and the snout 

 is marked by two broad white chevrons from above the eye 

 to the midhne of the snout, where, however, they are sepa- 

 rated by a narrow space. The cheeks below the eye are 

 marked by two white spots. The upper lips and chin are 

 white. The ears are small but broad, and are seal-brown on 

 the terminal half with the rest of back, base, and whole 

 inside white. The female is bright tawny-rufous with a 

 dark stripe following the median line of the back, with 

 indications of several white stripes on the body, and the legs 

 are striped with white, as in the male. The young show the 

 transverse white stripes much more distinctly than the adult 

 female. The characteristic white markings on the head, 

 throat, and legs of the bushbuck are found in the sitatunga, 

 but they are much less conspicuous. 



The male shot by Kermit Roosevelt measured in the flesh: 

 in length of head and body, 54 inches; tail, I2j^ inches; 

 hind foot, 19^2 inches; ear, 5^ inches, and height at the 

 withers, 39>J inches. The skull of this specimen measures 

 in length lof^ inches. The longest horns recorded by Ward 

 are from the Bahr el Ghazal, and show a length around the 

 curve of 35 inches. Average horns are, however, much less 

 in length, 20 inches being the usual length. 



Lesser Koodoo 



Ammelaphus 



Ammelaphus Heller, 1912, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 8, p. 15. 



The lesser koodoo has been given generic distinction from 

 the greater owing to the more narrowly spiral horns, absence 

 of a throat mane, and presence of the white patches on the 

 throat and chest, as in the bushbuck. It is quite evident 

 from these difl^erences in coloration that the lesser koodoo is 

 no more closely related to the greater koodoo than it is to 

 the bushbuck or the bongo. The color pattern is almost 

 identical with that of the bongo in those features in which it 

 differs from the greater koodoo, that is, the absence of a 

 throat mane and the white patches on the throat and chest. 

 The body stripes are practically the same in number and 

 position as in the bongo, from which it differs decidedly by 



