498 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



size of the skull, it is smaller than the races to the south of 

 it in British territory. No measurements of the horns or 

 body are recorded. 



'NzoiA Defassa Waterbuck 



Kobus defassa nzoice 



Native Names: Karamojo, ecoria; Kamasia, kisomere; Kavlrondo (Jaulo), 

 irigut. 



Kobus defassa nzoia: Matschic, 1910, Sitz. Ber. Ges. Nat. Freund. Berl., 

 p. 417. 



Range. — From the eastern edge of the Mau Escarp- 

 ment westward to Mount Elgon and northward to the high- 

 lands west of Lake Rudolf. 



Doctor Matschie, the describer of innumerable races of 

 antelopes from East Africa, named the present race from a 

 specimen shot by Major Powell-Cotton on the Uasin Gishu 

 Plateau. Jackson was perhaps the first sportsman to meet 

 with this race. He records it as abundant as far north as 

 the Turkwell River drainage. The 'Nzoia defassa is a hand- 

 some race with an abundance of long cinnamon-rufous 

 hair in the coat. It is the reddest of all the East African 

 races and has the heaviest coat of hair. Overlying the 

 reddish hair is a heavy black Hning of dark-tipped hair. 

 The forehead and the sides of the snout are usually bright 

 rufous and the nape of the neck is strongly suffused by 

 cinnamon-rufous. The horns are much shorter than those 

 of ugandcE and are more parallel in outline, seldom showing 

 the great divergence at the tips exhibited by that race. 



A fully adult male from the Uasin Gishu Plateau meas- 

 ured in the flesh: 84 inches in length of head and body; tail, 

 I5>^ inches; hind foot, 22 inches; ear, 8 inches. The horns 

 of the largest male in a series of four are 26^ inches in 

 length by 16 inches in spread. 



Rainey Defassa Waterbuck 

 Kobus defassa raineyi 



Kobus defassa raineyi Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 13, p. 5. 



Range. — Southeastern drainage of the Victoria Nyanza 

 from the headwaters of the Amala River in British East 



