486 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



The highland reedbuck is a dark-colored race, with long 

 pelage and with short, sharply hooked forward horns. The 

 dorsal region is heavily lined by black-tipped hairs on a 

 tawny-ochraceous ground, the legs are marked in front 

 by a broad, ill-defined blackish band, and the under-parts 

 are white, sharply defined against the tawny of the dorsal 

 surface. 



The measurements of an adult male in the flesh were: 

 head and body, 53 inches; tail, 7>^ inches; hind foot, i6>^ 

 inches ; ear, 6 inches. Greatest length of largest skull : male, 

 io>< inches; female, 9^8 inches. The longest horns meas- 

 ure loX inches on the curve and 9^ inches in greatest 

 spread, in a series of nine males. The specimens examined 

 were collected in the Uasin Gishu Plateau, on the Mau 

 Escarpment at Molo, Lake Elmentaita, the Amala River 

 near the German border, the Athi Plains in the vicinity of 

 Nairobi, and from the Maanja River of central Uganda. 



Nile Reedbuck 

 Redunca redunca cottoni 



Native Names: Dinka, kao; Bari, bore. 



Cervicapra redunca cottoni Rothschild, 1902, In Powell-Cotton's " Sporting 

 Trip Through Abyssinia," p. 470, two figures of skull and horns. 



Range. — The Nile Valley from the Sobat River and 

 Bahr el Ghazal southward in Uganda as far as the Albert 

 Nyanza and the Victoria Nile. 



The type of this race was collected by Major Powell- 

 Cotton in the lowlands of the Nile between the main river 

 and the branch known as the Bahr el Zeraf. It was de- 

 scribed in 1902 by Walter Rothschild in an appendix to 

 Powell-Cotton's "Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia," to- 

 gether with another race, do7ialdso?ii, from a point midway 

 between the head of Lake Rudolf and the Nile. The latter 

 race, however, is indistinguishable in horn shape and color- 

 ation, and must be regarded as a synonym of the race first 

 described. 



The Nile reedbuck is readily distinguishable from other 

 equatorial races by its wide-spread horns. The horns spread 

 outward, the expanse usually exceeding the length, and the 



