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ecru-drab which gradually shades into the whitish chin and 

 throat. The ears are fuscous on the back, but the inner 

 side is whitish, like the throat. 



The flesh measurements of an adult male are: head and 

 body, 20 inches; tail, 3^ inches; hind foot, 6^ inches; 

 ear, 2)4 inches. Length of skull, 4^2 inches. Horns, 1^4 

 inches in length by ^2 inch in basal diameter. 



The Nandi race occupies the highland forest of the 

 Nandi Escarpment, lying at an average altitude of some 

 2,000 feet above the range of the Uganda race. The dif- 

 ferences in color and size of the two races are, no doubt, due 

 to this difference in altitude and environment. Specimens 

 from the summit of the Mau, at Elgeyo, are in the British 

 Museum collection. Owing to the forest habitat and the 

 secretive nature of these small antelope, they are almost 

 never met with by sportsmen. The recorded specimens 

 have all been obtained from the natives who trap them 

 for their flesh and skins. 



Coast Blue Duiker 



Cephalophus monticola hecki 



Native Name: Swahili, paa. 



Cephalophus hecki Matschie, 1897, Sitz.-Ber. Ges. Nat. Freu. Berl., p. 158. 



Range. — From the Witu district and the mouth of the 

 Tana River south through the forest area of the coast to 

 Mozambique. 



The blue duiker inhabiting the coast forest area is strik- 

 ingly different from the Uganda race in color, but similar 

 to it in size. The legs are light vinaceous-cinnamon, in 

 marked contrast to the fuscous-brown body, and the under- 

 parts are pure white, at least medially. The tail is quite 

 bushy and white in color, with a narrow black dorsal stripe. 

 The race was described from a specimen in the Berlin 

 Museum from Mozambique and named for Doctor Heck, 

 the able director of the Berlin Zoological Garden. Speci- 

 mens have been examined at the British Museum from 

 the Shimba Hills near Mombasa and from Zanzibar Island, 

 collected by Sir John Kirk. This material is quite indis- 

 tinguishable from specimens from the Mozambique coast. 



