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until nearly trodden on. Occasionally reedbuck, like bush- 

 buck, lie up for the day in patches of brush or reeds con- 

 taining lions or hyenas. We put a doe out of a clump of 

 reeds from which we also put out and killed two hyenas. 

 Another pair were driven from a reed bed, an acre or two 

 in area, from precisely the same part of which a big, maned 

 lion was driven a few seconds afterward. Evidently the 

 reedbuck in such cover feel confident that they can detect 

 and avoid any hostile approach of their neighbors. We 

 never heard of their lying in such cover in company with a 

 leopard. 



Key to the Races of redunca 



Dorsal color light, tawny-ochraceous lined with black; pelage long 

 Horns sharply hooked forward; color lighter wardi 



Horns short and without pronounced forward hook; color darker 



ugandcB 



Dorsal color light, ochraceous-buff, without black lining; pelage short 

 Horns long and wide-spread, not hooked forward much cottoni 



Horns short and narrow; hooked forward at a sharp angle tohi 



Highland Reedbuck 



Redunca redunca zvardi 



Native Names: Masai, erongo; Luganda, njazza. 



Cervicapra redunca wardi Thomas, 1900, Ann. i^ Mag. Nat. Hist., p. 304. 



Range. — Highland region of British East Africa from 

 the German border north to the Turkwell River and from 

 the Victoria Nyanza east to the headwaters of the Athi 

 and Tana Rivers. 



Oldfield Thomas described this race from specimens re- 

 ceived from Rowland Ward. The types were collected by 

 F. J. Jackson on the Mau Plateau, no doubt somewhere in 

 the vicinity of Eldoma Ravine Station. 



