450 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



bands on the pasterns. The pelage is longer and the white 

 stripes are very distinctly marked. It is brighter-colored 

 than the typical race from South Africa, the stripes being 

 much more conspicuous although less in number. 



The coloration is ochraceous-tawny, but the median 

 dorsal region is darker, being seal-brown with a white 

 stripe following the vertebral column from the withers to 

 the rump. The sides are marked by six or eight transverse 

 white bands which extend from the median dorsal stripe 

 to the ventral surface or lower sides. The under-parts are 

 ochraceous with a broad blackish stripe extending medially 

 on the breast. The groins and the inside of the legs are 

 whitish and the front of the legs ochraceous. The band 

 above the hoofs and the back of the pasterns are black, and 

 the front of the pasterns are marked by a large blotch of whit- 

 ish. The tail is tawny-ochraceous like the body, the tip 

 darker walnut-brown, and the under side white. The neck 

 is drab-gray, and the nape has a thin mane of long, dusky- 

 brown hair, which is continued along the midline of the back 

 to the tail. The throat has a long mane of brownish hair 

 extending to the chest; the sides are buffy. The crown of 

 the head is walnut-brown crossed on the snout by a wide 

 diagonal white band from the eye, which meets its fellow on 

 the snout. The sides of the face are ecru-drab and marked 

 by two indistinct white spots below the eye. The lips and 

 chin are white. The back of the ears is hair-brown, the ter- 

 minal half being seal-brown, and the inside and base whitish. 

 The female is usually longer-haired than the male and has 

 the white body stripes more distinctly marked. The throat 

 mane is absent and the dorsal mane is not so distinct. 



The koodoos found near Baringo are confined to a few 

 square miles of country among rocky hills, and are widely sep- 

 arated from any other group. One hundred miles north, near 

 the south shore of Lake Rudolf, are a few others, while to the 

 south the nearest ones occur on the German border near the 

 Southern Guaso Nyiro River. Wide breaks of this sort, how- 

 ever, are characteristic of the distribution of the greater koo- 

 doo, owing, no doubt, to the isolated nature of the hilly and 

 rocky country which they select as their haunts. 



No flesh measurements are available. The skull of the 

 adult male measures i6 inches in greatest length. The 



