482 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



The head and neck are ochraceous and distinctly different 

 in color from the drab-gray body. The body is suffused 

 Hghtly by buffy-tipped hairs, but the rump and hind 

 quarters are paler drab-gray. The hind legs are decidedly 

 lighter than the body, being cartridge-buff in color. The 

 forelegs are drab-gray in front and pale olive-gray behind, 

 with buff pasterns. The under-parts are white, sharply de- 

 fined on the sides, but less so on the inside of the legs and on 

 the lower throat. The tail is drab-olive, the tip, sides, and 

 under-surface clothed by long, white hairs. The head and 

 fore neck are bright ochraceous, and the nose near the tip 

 has a slightly darker hair-brown median streak. There is 

 an ill-defined whitish area above the eye. The upper throat, 

 chin, and lips are white. The ear on the back is ochraceous, 

 and the inside and base are white. There is a large dark bare 

 spot below the ear. The sexes are alike in color. Nursing 

 young are quite identical to adults in color, the body being 

 perhaps slightly grayer and decidedly longer-haired. 



The female equals or perhaps exceeds slightly the male 

 in size, the largest skull in a series of fifteen being that of 

 a female. The measurements of a large male in the flesh 

 were: head and body, 45 inches; tail, S}i inches; hind foot, 

 133/^ inches; ear, ^^4 inches. The greatest length of the 

 skull is : male, 9 inches ; female, 9 iV inches. Longest horns in 

 a series of seven are 5^ inches measured along the curve, s}i 

 inches spread at the tips. 



Specimens have been examined from the Athi Plains 

 taken on Wami Hill, the Ulukenia Hills, and Kilima Kui; 

 from the Loita Plains, from Lake Elmentaita, from the 

 Northern Guaso Nyiro near the Ngare Ndare branch, and 

 from southern Abyssinia. 



Reedbuck 



Redunca 



Redunca H. Smith, 1827, Griffith's Cuvier Animal Kingdom, V, p. 337; 

 type Antilope redunca Pallas. 



The well-known genus Cervicapra, by which the reed- 

 bucks have long been known, has been recently replaced 



