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white, as are also the chin, throat, lips, and margin of the nos- 

 trils. The whole lower throat is ochraceous and somewhat 

 lighter than the nape. The under-parts and the inside of the 

 legs to the hocks and the knees and the under-surface of 

 the tail are sharply defined white. The legs have a broad, 

 blackish-brown band extending from the whitish hoof-band 

 to the shoulder on the forelegs, and to the hocks on the hind 

 legs. The back part of the forelegs is whitish, but this area in 

 the hind legs is ochraceous. The false hoofs are bordered by a 

 much narrower band of white than the hoofs. The female 

 is like the male, but easily distinguishable by the dark seal- 

 brown tips of the ears and the small extent of white in the 

 orbital region. The female resembles the female leucotis, but 

 the dorsal color is much darker tawny-ochraceous, the sides 

 are more ochraceous-buff, and show considerable contrast 

 to the white under-parts. The backs of ears are like the body 

 color, the tips are broadly tipped by seal-brown, and the base 

 and inside are white. The orbital white area is not pro- 

 duced forward as a preocular stripe. The legs have a dark 

 streak in front which is deep seal-brown as in the females of 

 alurcs. The hoof-band and the inside of the legs are buffy. 

 The measurements of an adult male in the flesh from the 

 Uasin Gishu Plateau are: head and body, 65 inches; tail, 13 

 inches ; hind foot, 1 7 inches ; ear, 6}4. inches. Length of skull, 

 1 1 >2 inches. The average length of the horns along the curve 

 is 16 inches and the spread is 14 inches. The longest horns 

 in a series of three adult males are 17^ inches, and the 

 greatest spread is 11 inches. A series of both sexes from 

 the headwaters of the 'Nzoia River in the Uasin Gishu 

 Plateau region have been studied, also the types in the 

 British Museum, including specimens from central Uganda. 



Lado Kob 

 Adenota kob alurce 



Native Names: Madi, ha; Aclioli, til. 



Adenota kob alurce Heller, 1913, Smith. Misc. Coll., vol. 61, No. 7, p. 11. 



Range. — West side of the Nile from the Albert Nyanza 

 northward to the Bahr-el-Ghazal drainage; limits of range 

 not known. 



