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The Lado kob was described recently from specimens 

 shot by Colonel Roosevelt at Rhino Camp on the west bank 

 of the Nile a few miles north of the station of Wadelai. 



In the Lado, the territory was everywhere of much the 

 same character, grassy plains covered with a sparse, scanty 

 growth of trees and bushes; and the kob, like the other 

 species, was far less specialized in its habitat than on the 

 Uasin Gishu. Waterbuck, kob, and hartebeest were all 

 found indiscriminately over the country, and often together; 

 from the same spot in two shots, at only a couple of seconds 

 interval, we shot a hartebeest bull and a fine buck kob. 

 As a rule, none of the antelope were shy in the Lado. 



The Lado race is like the Uganda kob in color, but lighter 

 and decidedly smaller. The skull is smaller and flatter in 

 both sexes and the size of the hoofs is smaller. It approaches 

 the typical kob of Senegal in its small size and stands quite 

 intermediate between it and thomasi, but differs by having 

 the head more extensively white, the entire orbital region 

 being white and the ears also showing a tendency to white- 

 ness, in some being uniform buft'y on the back without the 

 blackish tip. The old males, however, never assume the 

 black coat characteristic of this sex in leucotis nor do they 

 show, as a rule, the white ears. The female is distinguish- 

 able from the female Uganda kob by its lighter color and 

 the absence of the black lining to the dorsal region. The 

 hair is considerably shorter than in thomasi, being at the 

 hair whorl three-fourths of an inch or less, while on the 

 Uasin Gishu specimen it is one and one-fourth inches in 

 length at the same point. 



The color of the head and body in the adult male is ochra- 

 ceous, lightening on the lower sides and the midline of the 

 throat to ochraceous-buff. The backs of the ears are lighter 

 than the head, and are ochraceous-buff, but the tips are very 

 little darker, being ochraceous-tawny. The orbital region, 

 base and sides of ears, lips, borders of nostrils, chin, upper 

 throat, chest, under-parts, inside of legs, under side of tail. 



